Bug 58285 - ifup should support DHCPINFORM requests
Summary: ifup should support DHCPINFORM requests
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-01-12 23:06 UTC by Nicholas Miell
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:25 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 19:31:37 UTC
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Add DHCPINFORM support to the ifup initscript (413 bytes, patch)
2002-01-12 23:08 UTC, Nicholas Miell 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Nicholas Miell 2002-01-12 23:06:39 UTC 
The DHCP protocol allows clients to make DHCPINFORM requests, which mean
(roughly) "I already have an IP address, but I would like to know all the other
configuration variables."

dhcpcd supports these requests through the "-s" command line option, but the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup script doesn't make use of the option.

Adding support to ifup is easy enough, as the attached patch shows. It only
supports
dhcpcd because (AFAIK), pump can't do DHCPINFORM requests.
Comment 1 Nicholas Miell 2002-01-12 23:08:34 UTC 
Created attachment 42352 [details]
Add DHCPINFORM support to the ifup initscript
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 19:31:37 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

Since we don't use dhcpcd any more, closing this.
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