On Thursday 05 March 2015 12:07:57 Gerd von Egidy wrote: > When current dracut receives an ip with netmask of 255.255.255.255 via DHCP, > setting the also supplied default gateway fails (because it is obviously > not within the netmask). > > The setup with a netmask of /32 is quite common in colocation datacenters > where you don't want the machines of two different customers to directly > talk to each other. At least two of the biggest colocation providers in > Germany (1&1 and Strato) do it that way. NetworkManager supports this kind > of setup and the dhclient-scripts of several distributions too. > > In this patch I have implemented a simple approach very similar to what is > found in Debian. The dhclient-script from Fedora uses a more sophisticated > approach, but that relies on the ipcalc utility which would introduce a > dependency on Fedora-initscripts for dracut. any comments or questions about this one? I'd prefer if this could be merged into dracut upstream. Kind regards, Gerd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
