Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Tue 01 Mar 2011 08:50:39 +0100, a écrit :
> I have now working scripts dhclient-script.hurd and dhclient-script.hurd.udeb

Ok, good, please post them for review.

> Both udeb for Linux and kfreeBSD have strange constructs I've not been
> able to find out about, e.g.
> 
> new_mask="/$(ptom $new_subnet_mask)"
> 
> Is the ptom command something in the Debian installer, or elsewhere.

It's from the netcfg udeb package, yes, so you can use it.

> Another issue is about inetutils-ifconfig: According to the help/manpage
> there should be commands for activating and shutting down the interface,
> but for Hurd they don't work. 
> 
> inetutils-ifconfig -i eth0 --up
> inetutils-ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS failed: (os/device) invalid IO size
> 
> inetutils-ifconfig -i eth0 --down

I'm not really surprised actually.
Didn't we have working equivalent in our latest dhcp script?

Samuel