Thanks for quick response!

So, if I add the lines below, where does the VLAN1,VLAN2 and VLAN3 labels
come from?
 - Are they from a another place in the dhcp-template file?
 - Labels setup per each network interface in Linux?
 - Elsewhere?

/Daniel


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Greg Chavez <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Daniel Kertby <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have setup Cobbler to use DHCP and the cobbler itself resides on
> multiple
> > VLANs (over a Bond).
> >
> > My intention is to get the ks=http://<server>/cblr/svc.. to point at the
> > interface if of the Cobbler server
> > for that VLAN.
> >
> > When adding a system, --server-override=string can be used but I don't
> want
> > this to be put on the
> > cobbler users -- or additional code for fixing that.
> >
> > My understanding is that the /etc/cobbler/dhcp.template file can be
> updated
> > to provide the correct
> > installation server. Is this correct?
>
> Yes.  Use the --dhcp-tag system parameter to assign different values
> to $next_server. For example, let's say you have 3 VLANs.  You could
> assign to --dhcp_tag arbitrary values like "VLAN1", "VLAN2", and
> "VLAN3".  Then, you could add this Cheetah markup to redefine
> $next_server before the :#for dhcp_tag" loop begins:
>
> #if $dhcp_tag == "VLAN1"
>  #set global next_server = <vlan1 IP>
> #else if $dhcp_tag == "VLAN2"
>  #set global next_server = <vlan2 IP>
> #else if $dhcp_tag == "VLAN3"
>  #set global next_server = <vlan3 IP>
> #end if
>
> At least, I assume this should work.   It all depends on whether or
> not Cobbler allows you to change its built-in variables.
>
> More information here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating and here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets.
>
> --
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