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

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> 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. 
That means the whole distro image is on the development host, am I right? 
> 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).
I have thought the same things before.  Do you need to write some 
scripts or utility to find public internet-connected wifi?
>
> Also, I would like to bring the needed Flash space down to 8 or 16 
> Mbytes (just for fun).
What is your thought on that?  Just remove unnecessary stuff or else?  
There has been some discussion on jffs2, squashfs and unionfs, see 
feature request page in wiki.
>
> This should work, but is rather cumbersome for most people. Who is 
> your target audience for this?
It is for all voyage users who need large scale deployment.   I also 
need this to shorten testing of pre-release.  They can put their 
standard voyage or customized distro in Install server and choose what 
they like to install.  Install from NFS mount may be one of the ways, 
but it can also install voyage remotely using FTP and HTTP.

> 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.
The "firmware upgrade" approach is something that I am not going to 
touch very soon.  But I would suggest that the upgrade firmware should 
be built based on the distro tarball as to maintain compatibility.  It 
is just my flash thinking.
> Regards,
>
> Leon.
>

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