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Re: ifup script for bootpc. Anyone ? (again)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Nov 15 15:27:58 1996

Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:15:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Rasmus Tamstorf wrote:

> I've been wondering if anyone has made an 'ifup' script for use with
> bootpc. In my old RH 2.1 there was an environment variable BOOTP=[yes|no]
> in ifcfg-eth0, but apparently it has disappeared in RH 4.0. What I would
> like is for ifup to check whether to obtain the IP-addresses for
> ifcfg-<device> or from bootpc. - And in the latter case to invoke bootpc.
> I do know there is a rc.bootpc script in the bootpc rpm, but it doesn't
> seem to fit very well with the remaining network setup scripts.

We just released initscripts-2.77 which should support bootp just fine. Let
me know if it doesn't.

Erik

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