[syslinux] Re: Network Boot IP Configuration Dilemma

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> As he uses a ramdisk, that's not a problem. You could add a MAC=<mac_address>
> and the linuxrc would get the values from /proc/cmdline.
> 
> But still, personally, I don't understand the problem of letting the
> kernel get a dhcp lease afterwards.
> 

I really don't either, and I'm extremely hesitant to start plugging 
random crud into PXELINUX unless someone can come up with a case other 
than "misconfigured DHCP server" where the re-leasing (no pun intended) 
model just doesn't work.

This is partially a correctness issue: at some point the lease is going 
to expire anyway, and by then there better be a dhcpd running which can 
renew it.

	-hpa