Hi Dan,

On 03.06.2014 [09:26:49 -0700], Dan Alvarez wrote:
> Hi Nishanth,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  Inline... [DA]
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > On 29.05.2014 [15:57:56 -0700], Dan Alvarez wrote:
> > > I read through the thread back in 2012, but it didn't look to have
> > resulted
> > > in a final conclusion.   I'm happily using cobbler to set up my DHCP and
> > > DNS for the cluster.  It all works fine for my regular ports, but I'm
> > also
> > > using provisioning through cobbler for my ipmi interfaces (DHCP and DNS)
> > > but I loose my DHCP leases on those after some time.
> >
> > I'm not sure why there is a difference between the two, but...
> >
> 
> [DA] I'm pretty sure it is because the ipmi interface rely on DHCP
> still being there after the initial lease expires.  The configuration
> learned from DHCP is not persisted in linux for the ipmi interfaces.
> You could argue that I could provision ipmi separately, but I'm hooked
> on cobbler and would like to keep all my provisioning in one place.

Ok, that makes sense.

> > > Why don't the dhcp entries persist even with netboot-enabled set to
> > False?
> > >  Is there a way to force the dhcp entries for an interface to be
> > persistent?
> >
> > Upstream has commited an option "always_write_dhcp_entries" for exactly
> > this purpose.
> >
> 
> [DA] Do you know what version of cobbler I need to pick up for this?
> Thanks

It only was merged in April of this year, so I'm not sure it's in any
release.

-Nish

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