On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:07:57PM +0100, Ingo Adlung wrote: > Now folks, please let me know about the importance of having DHCP > support with Linux on zSeries - and is client or server more important > to you, or both ?
Server perhaps slightly more than client, but both. Here's why: I wish to build large Virtual Penguin Farms--multiple Linux instances under z/VM, on several subnets. Those subnets only exist by virtue of HiperSockets. Now, although I *can* write a simple script to write machine parameters--hostname, IP address, role, etc--into CMS space at machne creation and then have a boot time script pick it up when I first IPL the Linux guest, it's be a lot simpler for me if each of my guests could be told, "you are a DHCP client" and could simply query their broadcast address, at which point I can give them that information. Then I simply maintain a single database of host information and hand it out as required. Adam
