> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:22:42PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > Sorry, but I didn't get the point -- why would the second one let the node > > boot > > from its harddisk??? > > Suppose you got two DHCP servers, only one of them acting as FAI install > server. Only the FAI server would have a specific PXE/TFTP entry for the > host to be installed...(because only it can serve FAI to the client) - > the other one would have a default PXE entry (localboot). Now you'll > be playing Russian roulette, guess which server will respond first... >
As long as you are using ISC's dhcpd, the "next-server" statement should tell your clients, where to fetch their images from. I'm using 3 DHCP servers and my FAI-server is a completely different host ... HTH, Michael
