Seth Goldberg wrote: > > > Quoting Felix Zielcke, who wrote the following on Thu, 15 Oct 2009: > >> Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 23:53 -0700 schrieb Seth Goldberg: >>> Hi, >>> >>> That's actually not sufficient -- we need the entire DHCPACK to >>> be passed >>> (somehow) to the loading kernel. I've discussed this a bit with >>> phcoder, and >>> he suggested adding another member to the multiboot structure off of >>> which we >>> can hang the DHCPACK packet. The environment variables may also >>> have value, >>> for other OSes that don't use multiboot. >>> >>> --S >>> >>> Quoting Aleš Kapica, who wrote the following on Thu, 15 Oct 2009: >>> >>>> Could I ask you for apply patch from attachment on pxecmd.c in >>>> grub2, please? >>>> It's adding an option -s to the command pxe, which do make possible >>>> set IP >>>> addresses of the server and the client machine, got from PXE, among >>>> grub2 >>>> enviroment variables. >>>> DHCP gives IP according to MAC address, and we use it to identify >>>> the client >>>> station by IP address. >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot, with regards Aleš Kapica >>>> >> >> Having the Client IP avaible inside grub.cfg might be useful for some. >> Then you could have one grub.cfg for all your machines and if one or a >> small number of it needs some special stuff, you could just check for >> the IP inside the grub.cfg. Then you don't need to use a seperate one >> for them. > > Please, no. That's terribly non-scalable for a large number of > clients (enterprise deployments). We definitely need a solution that > includes the configuration file to use as a DHCP option. > One doesn't prevent another. And then it will be up to administrator to choose the way they want their system to work > --S > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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