Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 16:18:42 EST


Followup to: <E1CwfQK-00011a-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in
> user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way.
>

Note that the klibc distribution already contains a working dhcp
client. The only thing missing is just "putting the backwards into
backwards compatible", i.e. handling *all* the (sometimes weird)
kernel behaviours for full compatibility.

-hpa
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