[Voyage-linux] [BUG] When time jumps (by NTP) DHCP gets confused, brings if down and up again after renewal period.

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Punky,

Kim-man "Punky" TSE wrote:
> Hi Leon and all,
>
> May I further know what you are able to do after PXE boot and NFS mount?
My first intent is to have direct access to the client's filesystem on 
my development host, so that I can quickly test configurations and new 
features. My aim is to create a 'roaming repeater': find public 
Internet-connected wifi nets automatically and act as an Internet 
gateway towards the wired net (and/or a wireless station now that 
madwifi-ng supports concurrent AP/station mode).

Also, I would like to bring the needed Flash space down to 8 or 16 
Mbytes (just for fun).

>   I am going to do the same thing to provide a VMWare image for PXE 
> boot for 0.2 release.  I am not sure you have already done the same.  
> My idea is:
>
> - Provide a VMWare image as a PXE/TFTP/NFS server (the Install Server) 
> hosting voyage distro images which are exported to NFS mount.
> - After client boot from PXE, it is able to mount NFS on the Install 
> Server
> - Then, you can run voyage.update on NFS mount, and install voyage to 
> the client's local disk device,  e.g. CF on WRAP.
This should work, but is rather cumbersome for most people. Who is your 
target audience for this?
> That's my idea so far.  I know NFS is one way for remote install, I am 
> sure there are many other ways.  Please comment and discuss for the 
> ultimate solution.
For remote upgrading a voyage client, I probably would create a small 
Linux kernel with embedded initramfs, that can be downloaded over TFTP, 
and once started, fetches its upgrade image over Internet.

I have not really thought about it, though.

Regards,

Leon.

>
> Punky
>
> Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> found another bug in the networking scripts of Voyage 0.2pre4:
>>
>> See issue #2 which I have described at the Wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=nfs_voyage
>>
>> (Note I have solved issue #1 already).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leon.
>>
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