On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:43 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So this change on its own is insufficient in my environment. Here is the
>> resulting bootlog:
>>
>> TFTP BOOT ---------------------------------------------------
>> Server IP.....................9.3.191.134
>> Client IP.....................9.3.192.209
>> Gateway IP....................9.3.192.1
>> Subnet Mask...................255.255.255.0
>> ( 1  ) Filename................./yaboot
>> TFTP Retries..................5
>> Block Size....................512
>> FINAL PACKET COUNT = 388
>> FINAL FILE SIZE = 198376  BYTES
>>
>> Elapsed time since release of system processors: 18709 mins 13 secs
>>
>> ipv6 = <0>
>> siaddr = <9.3.191.134>
>> file = <>
>> ciaddr = <9.3.192.209>
>> giaddr = <9.3.192.1>
>> bootp_retries = <5>
>> tftp_retries = <5>
>> addl_params = <512>
>> dhcpv6 = <<NULL>>
>> blksize = <<NULL>>
>> Try to netboot
>>
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>> TFTP BOOT ---------------------------------------------------
>> Server IP.....................9.3.191.134
>> Client IP.....................9.3.192.209
>> Gateway IP....................9.3.192.1
>> Subnet Mask...................255.255.255.0
>> ( 1  ) Filename.................\etc\01-82-5c-60-4a-67-04
>> TFTP Retries..................5
>> Block Size....................512
>> 1
>> 2
>> 3
>>        !BA017021 !
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>> Error, can't read config file
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>> It tries a few other config file locations, but then eventually drops to
>> yaboot's prompt, with no kernels available, and if you hit enter there,
>> it just tries to load the conf file again.
>>
>> FWIW, here was the generated stanza:
>>
>>    host generic7 {
>>        hardware ethernet <AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF>;
>>        fixed-address <ip>;
>>        option host-name "<hostname>";
>>        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>>        option routers <gw>;
>>        filename "/yaboot";
>>    }
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>> If I change your commit slightly, I do get what I need:
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>> Do not generate either the next-server or filename sections of the DHCP
>> stanza if a server is not setup to netboot. This allows DHCP
>> environments to obtain IP addresses, but prevents netboot cycles on
>> PowerPC.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
>>
>> diff --git a/templates/etc/dhcp.template b/templates/etc/dhcp.template
>> index d7a28ef..58926ab 100644
>> --- a/templates/etc/dhcp.template
>> +++ b/templates/etc/dhcp.template
>> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ group {
>>         #if $iface.gateway:
>>         option routers $iface.gateway;
>>         #end if
>> +        #if $iface.netboot_enabled:
>>         #if $iface.enable_gpxe:
>>         if exists user-class and option user-class = "gPXE" {
>>             filename 
>> "http://$cobbler_server/cblr/svc/op/gpxe/system/$iface.owner";;
>> @@ -61,7 +62,6 @@ group {
>>         #end if
>>         ## Cobbler defaults to $next_server, but some users
>>         ## may like to use $iface.system.server for proxied setups
>> -        #if $iface.netboot_enabled:
>>         next-server $next_server;
>>         #end if
>>         ## next-server $iface.next_server;
>>
>> --
>> Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
>> IBM Linux Technology Center
>>
>
> It sounds like you need a new system (per-interface maybe?) setting to
> prevent entries from being entered into the dhcpd.conf:
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> if not netboot_enabled and disable_dhcp_entry:
>   continue
>
> disable_dhcp_entry would default to false.

Isn't that just duplicating the function of checking the 'static' box?

-greg
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