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 _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
