CD, NFSROOT and expiring DHCP lease

[Andrew Ruthven]

On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 12:04 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:21:06 +1200, Andrew Ruthven <
> > > > > > andrew at etc.gen.nz> said:
> 
>     > Dracut acts as a DHCP client, but is a single shot only. Once
> the
>     > lease expires nothing on the machine building rebuilt renews
>     > it.
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> you are right, in FAI the kernel (or maybe the initrd) configures the
> IP addresses and sets valid_lft and preferred_lft to forever.

It is the kernel which performs the DHCP request, and renews it as
required.

> Then a one-shot dhcp request is done, but with a different config and
> dhcp script to write the file boot.log.
> FAI does not start the dhclient to automatic renew the ip leases.
> This
> is a bug.

Cool. Good to know I'm not going crazy!

>     > Is there an approach so that ISO images created with fai-cd
> perform
>     > DHCP lease renewals?
> As a workaround, you could write a hook, that starts dhclient.
> Since the hooks are on the ISO and will be executed, this should work
> until I release a new FAI version with a fix.

Yup, sure thing. I'll see about doing this tomorrow.

> It would be nice if you could file a bug report for this.

Done. :)

Cheers,
Andrew

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