Re: [PATCH] Use libnl and dhclient in nash for network configuration.

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:30 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > This patch modifies nash to use dhclient when the 'network'
> > command requests dhcp.  Instead of firing off dhclient-script,
> > nash reads the leases file directly and extracts the information.
> > The nashSetupInterface() function is then called (which is also
> > the case for manual network configuration) to configure the
> > interface.  nashSetupInterface() uses libnl to add the address
> > and set the default gateway.
> > 
> > Added nashSetMTU() to set the interface MTU using libnl.
> > 
> Woo, big patch. Anyways wasn't the plan to move to using NetworkManager in the 
> initrd? Or is this for RHEL54?

Moving to NetworkManager for the initrd is really going to require an
overhaul of how our initrds work altogether and there are a few
outstanding questions that I'm not sure are solvable right now.  And I'm
not sure that's going to happen in a timely fashion and this lets us
finish killing libdhcp

Jeremy