James Cammarata wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

FWIW, ia64 and certain yaboot's can't boot from the MAC and require the 
IP. It would be a tolerable limitation and still nice to have, and would 
work painlessly if someone was using
the manage_dhcp feature.

--Michael


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