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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Be careful when using dhcp with a LiveCD
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:08:51
Message-Id: 4758A027.2030403@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Be careful when using dhcp with a LiveCD by Mick
1 Mick ha scritto:
2 >> The point is: be careful when using dhcp from a LiveCD. Your system
3 >> might act differently the next time you boot the hard drive.
4 >
5 > The dhcpcd was changed recently and not all dhcp servers take kindly to it,
6 > when it uses DUID the way it does (some servers depend on DUID passing on to
7 > them the MAC of the client). The solution I also found was to set the vram
8 > flag.
9
10 I'm really ignorant on networks. What has changed on the dhcp side so
11 that *client* behaviour alters *server* behaviour? Isn't this horribly
12 broken (from the server side), or there is some reason to behave that?
13
14 m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Be careful when using dhcp with a LiveCD Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>