Re: CD, NFSROOT and expiring DHCP lease
Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 12:04 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:21:06 +1200, Andrew Ruthven < > > > > > > [email protected]> 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 -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand [email protected] | Catalyst Cloud: | This space intentionally left blank https://catalystcloud.nz |