Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Sun 27 Feb 2011 19:50:53 +0100, a écrit :
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 17:48 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault, le Sun 27 Feb 2011 17:43:12 +0100, a écrit :
> > > that glibc opens /servers/sockets/2, which thus triggers the pfinet
> > > translator configured there.
> > 
> > The trigger happening in ext2fs, which holds the /servers/sockets/2 node
> > and the on-disk translator record that tells what to run.
> 
> I'll update myself on translators before replying again about this. One
> thing is still bugging me: How do I test (know) if the dhcp-client I've
> patched and built works properly or not???

Check that fsysopts /servers/socket/2 shows the proper settings.

> How to test the server?

Well, I don't think we've ever tried the server part of the dhcp
package, it's not really urging actually.

> Is anybody interested in a working dhcp for GNU/Hurd,

It's definitely interesting. The dhcp support in d-i is mostly waiting
for that.

> I've spent some time on this now, is this effort just in vain??

It's definitely not in vain.

Samuel