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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:26:16 -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 13:21:29 -0700 "Charissa Willard"
<charissa.willard@onstor.com> wrote:

> So is this after we move the daemons to inetd?

Nope, exactly how everything works today.  The only change that *might*
have to be made is that these daemons listen on 0.0.0.0 rather than a
specific IP address.  Which they might already do, I don't know.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:16 PM
> To: Charissa Willard
> Subject: Re: rc.initial over IP
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
