Short reply: that feature got merged in to 2.6.0, see cobbler manual
section release notes.

Cheers
Op 3 jun. 2014 18:51 schreef "Nishanth Aravamudan" <[email protected]
>:

> 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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