[PATCH] patch to speed up bootpc queries

[Geert Stappers]

At 11:01 +0100 1/4/02, Ronan KERYELL wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 06:54:59 +0100, Geert Stappers
>>>>>><Geert.Stappers at xs4all.nl> said:
>
>    Geert> Why worry about about a extra BOOTP request, when we have a
>    Geert> complete installation to do on mostly single NIC computers?
>
>Strange, I only do FAI on multi-NIC computers since it is for a network
>deployment... :-)
>
>So I agree with Phil... :-)

I looking forward to see the test results of testing:

>> If the variable $netdevices is
>> defined, then only this list of interfaces is used and not all
>> available ethernet devices. Define this variable in /etc/fai.conf (the
>> next fai version will use /etc/fai/fai.conf) and rebuild the nfsroot
>> or copy trhis file to $NFSROOT/etc/fai.conf. Here's an example
>>
>> /etc/fai.conf:
>> netdevices=eth0




Geert

--
for NIC in ${netdevices}
do
  bootp ${NIC}
done