Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 08:19:19 +0100, a écrit :
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 23:49 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Thu 24 Feb 2011 23:43:59 +0100, a écrit :
> 
> > > Another question (I'm still a newbie): From which init file is the
> > > network started on Hurd.
> > 
> > None, that's why I said you wouldn't run ifup on Hurd: whenever a
> > program calls socket(), that opens /servers/socket/2, which thus
> > triggers the pfinet translator start.
> 
> Is seems that the /etc/network/interfaces file is parsed though. Where
> does this happen? On Linux it is parsed by ifup/ifdown.

Maybe /etc/init.d/networking still gets called somehow, but anyway
that's not the GNU way.

> And which
> program calls socket() on Hurd to start the networking with pfinet?

Whatever program which wants to access the network. The sshd server at
startup to establish its listening socket, for instance;

Samuel