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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:15:59 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Charissa Willard" <charissa.willard@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: rc.initial over IP
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:25:29 -0700 "Charissa Willard"
<charissa.willard@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
>  
> 
> It's my understanding that the dhclient app is run as part of the boot
> process. Once the parameters are obtained from a DHCP server, we may
> still need to be able to verify these parameters in addition to
> setting values for those that may not be in the DHCP server. We would
> want to do this and then commit the values as we currently do in
> rc.initial. In order to do this over IP instead of a serial cable,
> would we just need to move the required daemons (sscccc & http) to
> inetd? You had suggested this earlier. Please let me know your
> thoughts on this. At a minimum, we could always do this over IP using
> a script and not NCM.

The daemons should work without modification.  If they don't, then they
need fixin'.  After they are fixed, then they will work w/o
modification ~:^)

The dhcp client daemon should be configured to request a minimum set of
required parameters necessary to connect.  We can add a few lines to
whatever shell script to copy the information to the correct
locations.  At that point the user can connect and the GUI initial
config should then "take care" of configuring whatever items were not
obtained via dhcp.
