From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29385 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2001 17:28:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29362 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2001 17:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO conn.mc.mpls.visi.com) (208.42.156.2) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 2001 17:28:40 -0000 Received: from grante.comtrol.com (grante.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.248]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 596288120 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:28:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 16535 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2001 17:33:52 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 23:57:00 -0000 From: Grant Edwards To: Hugo Tyson Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20011130113351.A16439@visi.com> References: <20011130111021.B16185@visi.com> <200111301715.fAUHFwY21320@masala.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200111301715.fAUHFwY21320@masala.cambridge.redhat.com>; from hmt@redhat.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:15:58PM +0000 Subject: Re: [ECOS] DHCP w/ Win2K server? X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00323.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:15:58PM +0000, Hugo Tyson wrote: > > > So for backward compatibility, I shall add specific requests > > > for *all* those options that I am used to seeing - the absence > > > of the "half time" and "nearly done" times is particularly > > > distressing. > > > > As of a few months ago, those two times get defaulted to > > reasonable values if they're not present (IIRC, the default > > value calculation will match the default values used by the > > Linux server: 1/2 and 3/4 of the lease time), but requesting > > them is probably the right thing to do. > > Indeed, the code in eCos does just that if it doesn't get the values. But > I'd rather see all the stuff I'm used to seeing, IYSWIM - hence the far > larger patch that I applied. > > > The lack of a netmask, OTOH, is the show stopper for me. :( > > > > Fixing it's easy enough, but it's another half-day's worth of > > electronic paper-shuffling to get the fix out. > > Well, it wasn't quite as easy as "easy enough" ;-) See the patch... Ah, the change to a variable sized tag required a bit of additional infrastructure. I'll try out the patch with Linux and Win2K DHCP servers after lunch. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: Hugo Tyson Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] DHCP w/ Win2K server? Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20011130113351.A16439@visi.com> References: <20011130111021.B16185@visi.com> <200111301715.fAUHFwY21320@masala.cambridge.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00440.html Message-ID: <20011130092800.xK62_lV1euRUn912_iEMShRcfnx5e3pWTmFOnjwLNHc@z> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:15:58PM +0000, Hugo Tyson wrote: > > > So for backward compatibility, I shall add specific requests > > > for *all* those options that I am used to seeing - the absence > > > of the "half time" and "nearly done" times is particularly > > > distressing. > > > > As of a few months ago, those two times get defaulted to > > reasonable values if they're not present (IIRC, the default > > value calculation will match the default values used by the > > Linux server: 1/2 and 3/4 of the lease time), but requesting > > them is probably the right thing to do. > > Indeed, the code in eCos does just that if it doesn't get the values. But > I'd rather see all the stuff I'm used to seeing, IYSWIM - hence the far > larger patch that I applied. > > > The lack of a netmask, OTOH, is the show stopper for me. :( > > > > Fixing it's easy enough, but it's another half-day's worth of > > electronic paper-shuffling to get the fix out. > > Well, it wasn't quite as easy as "easy enough" ;-) See the patch... Ah, the change to a variable sized tag required a bit of additional infrastructure. I'll try out the patch with Linux and Win2K DHCP servers after lunch. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com