ipv4 interface config at boot time ?

SamSam euridyce.orfeo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 13:50:24 CET 2009


2009/2/12 Björn Påhlsson <belorn at fukt.bsnet.se>

> > I'm running 2 servers on an ipv4 lan with static addresses. Is there a
> > way to configure the network interface (ip address and netmask) of the
> > mandos-client during the initramfs boot ?
>
> Funny that you should ask, since there should be a new release in the
> next few days with that capability.  More on this at the time of
> actual release.


cool ! I had a look at the svn sources, but I didn't find a way to configure
the destination IP address.


>
>
> But if the server and client computers are on the same LAN, there
> shouldn't be a need to.  The client will automatically find the server
> through the magic of ZeroConf and link-local IPv6 address, without
> needing an IPv4 adress.


Unfortunately, ipv6 traffic is forbidden on this lan (and ipv6 kernel
modules are blacklisted).

Regards,
Sylvain
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.fukt.bsnet.se/pipermail/mandos-dev/attachments/20090212/a8d1400d/attachment.htm 


More information about the Mandos-Dev mailing list