Bug 6321

Summary:	DHCP should have a 'route' added at startup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Yeo <cyeo>
Component:	dhcp	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
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Version:	6.1
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Description Chris Yeo 1999-10-25 05:36:05 UTC

Hi,

This is not really a bug, but since a lot of people will
have their linux box running dhcp for a combination of
Windows an other OS's, this is what I would purpose.

Can you ask at the end of the installation or when you do an
install of dhcp for which ethernet device you are going to
run the dhcp server.  This could add 2 things to the startup
scripts.

you could have these changes in start:

daemon /usr/sbin/dhcpd <ethx>
route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev <ethx>

And in stop:

route del -host 255.255.255.255 dev <ethx>

Just a suggestion...

Chris

Comment 1 Erik Troan 2000-02-24 18:14:59 UTC

We've asked TCP/IP folks about this, and as this is only needed for old, buggy
TCP stacks the consensus was that this would not be a good idea.