From: roy.qing...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:54:36 +0800 > From: Li RongQing <roy.qing...@gmail.com> > > A dhcp server may provide parameters to a client from a pool of IP > addresses and using a shared rootfs, or provide a specific set of > parameters for a specific client, usually using the MAC address to > identify each client individually. The dhcp protocol also specifies > a client-id field which can be used to determine the correct > parameters to supply when no MAC address is available. There is > currently no way to tell the kernel to supply a specific client-id, > only the userspace dhcp clients support this feature, but this can > not be used when the network is needed before userspace is available > such as when the root filesystem is on NFS. > > This patch is to be able to do something like "ip=dhcp,client_id_type, > client_id_value", as a kernel parameter to enable the kernel to > identify itself to the server. > > Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing...@gmail.com>
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