On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Anders Jackson wrote: > > BTW, I still like the idea of having multiple DHCP servers. > > Unfortunately, the second one (if no FAI server) would simply let the > > node boot from its harddisk - not exactly what's intended. > > Switch off the additional DHCP servers for FAI installations? > > I do think there is some sync problems having more than one DHCP-server > if you have dynamic IP-addressess delivered by them. If/when the server > restarts they seems to loose track of which IP-numbers are used. And > when one of them deliver one IP-number, they have to check with the > other DHCP-servers. At least I remeber it to be those problems with > multiple DHCP-servers and IP-numbers (that is, modulo bit-loss in my > memory :-)
No need to worry: static addresses bound to the if card MAC. It's just that the systems themselves don't bear a name tag - which makes them easily interchangeable. (Slaves don't have a face...) Steffen
