The manpage for dhclient-script says:
Before actually configuring the address, dhclient-script should
somehow ARP for it and exit with a nonzero status if it receives a
reply.
By using arping in dracut this is very easy, since arping has a
specific option to do just that.
This patch adds STP timeout error handling with arping. It's rather
simple since it only cares about the primary interface and blindly
assumes that if no gateway is available the root server is on the
same subnet.
The usual approach to setting mtus is to set the interface down,
set the mtu then set the interface back up again. Modern hardware
and/or drivers may support setting this on the fly, so we try
this and fall back to the old behaviour it it doesn't work.
In addition this patch only allows mtus greater than 576, this is
taken from debian/ubuntu dhclient-script.
ifname=<interface>:<MAC>
Assign network device name <interface> (ie eth0) to the NIC
with MAC <MAC>.
Note that if you use this option you *must* specify an ifname=
argument for all interfaces used in ip= or fcoe= arguments
ifname=<interface>:<MAC>
Assign network device name <interface> (ie eth0) to the NIC with MAC <MAC>.
Note that if you use this option you *must* specify an ifname= argument
for all interfaces used in ip= or fcoe= arguments
This introduces filter_kernel_modules, which should be used to install
all kernel modules that match whatever criteria you want.
If running in --hostonly, filter_kernel_modules will only consider
modules that are loaded in the kernel, otherwise it will consider
all the modules installed on the system for the appropriate kernel.
This drastically reduces initramfs generation time when using --hostonly
by eliminating lots of unneeded filesystem activity.
--kernel-only
only install kernel drivers and firmware files
--no-kernel
do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
to "installkernel".
For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
to replace one image.
Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
look like this:
title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-20090722.img
initrd /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
initrd /initrd-config.img
initrd-20090722.img
the image provided by the initrd rpm
one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
the image provided by the kernel rpm
initrd-config.img
optional image with local configuration files
* SYNTAX
bridge=<bridgename>:<ethname>
If bridge without parameters, assume bridge=br0:eth0
* When <ethname> would be configured by network scripts, instead create a bridge named <bridgename> then add <ethname> to that bridge.
* Then $netif becomes <bridgename> instead of <ethname> and all existing scripts process netroot mount via this new $netif instead of <ethname>.
* Include a few test cases in NFS and NBD
Udev rules set a /dev/root symlink to the real root and add
a mount script to /mount/. This enables the proper use of pre-mount
scripts and prevents mount being killed by a udev timeout.
Jobs are no longer handled inside the udev events.
/sbin/initqueue is called with the commands to queue.
init will work on these jobs sequentially, so that we prevent jobs
from being killed by udev timeouts.
This serialization also prevents some problems introduced by
the udev event parallelization.
The Bug causing dhclient to recall BIND has been identified:
dhclient-script runs with #!/bin/sh -e, causing setup_interface
to fail if no hostname is provided by dhcp as it is the last statement
in that function.
This introduces a new cmdline argument bootdev, to support the case
where multiple nics need to be up before the netroot handler is called.
Cases involved might be bonding, iscsi multipathing, bonding, ...
This argument is required to decide which interface is the primary to
use for dhcp root-path, default gw, etc.
When multiple ip= items are present on the cmdline, the ip= parser
now enforces the presence of <dev> further demands that the new argument
bootdev contains the name of the primary interface. Configurtion if of
course still delegated to netroot but in is enhance to ensure that netroot
"waits" for all required interfaces to be up.
Example: root=dhcp ip=eth0:dhcp ip=client-ip:::netmask::eth1:off bootdev=eth0
First, the ip= cmdline parser ensures that all ip items contain a <dev> then
checks the ip items and checks as well that an ip= item for the given bootdev
was found.
When the first netroot starts, probably for eth1, it checks wheter interface
configuration for all interfaces is available. If not it exits. The second
start of netroot (eth0, which was a bit delayed because of dhcp) sees that
all interfaces are present, configures them and continues.
Instead of configuring devices when they are ready, ifup and
dhclient-script write script files which are then sourced by
netroot.
This solves the problem of having multiple interfaces and not knowing
which one to use for dhcp or default route. This way, netroot (which
is serialized anyway) configures the interface before calling the root
handler and deconfigures it if the handler failed.
Example: root=nfs:server:path and ip=dhcp with eth0 and eth1 receiving
a dhcp reply, but eth0 is the correct one to use.
Assuming eth1 is the first to receive the dhcp-reply, netroot starts
and configures eth1. nfsroot is run but fails, so eth1 is deconfigured. If
eth0 has received a dhcp-reply (or not, then we wait) the other locked
netroot process starts and tries with eth0 and succeeds.
Philippe Seewer