On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:31:45 -0500, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> James Cammarata wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:19 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> James Cammarata wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can match on the IP/MAC address, can't you?  So we could
>>>>
>>> theoretically
>>>
>>>> at least use a custom sif for systems?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Under "FILENAME REMAPPING", in in.tftpd's man page:
>>>
>>> \i     The IP address of the requesting host, in dotted-quad notation
>>> (e.g. 192.0.2.169).
>>>
>>> \x     The IP address of the requesting host, in hexadecimal notation
>>> (e.g. C00002A9).
>>>
>>> This would imply your nodes get reserved DHCP leases which isn't
>>> feasible for most situations (such as multi-subnet setups since host
>>> declarations are global and not subnet specific).


Dangit, just realized that \x is the IP in hex format, not the MAC...  back
to the drawing board :\  This would still work if you specify both the mac
and IP, but I don't know how many people do that currently.


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