Sean- didn't realize you were working on a CLI tool for this... maybe we should talk about it before we go to too much effort?
Jeremy
At 04:49 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, Sean Dague wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:29:57PM -0600, Jeremy Enos wrote:
> So here's an idea to float...
> What if we just get rid of the "Configure DHCPD" button and bind it's
> function to the "Assign MAC address" function? Yes, this would restart
> DHCPD each time a MAC was assigned. By doing that, we potentially
> eliminate a sysadmin's walk to a node to reboot it the second time, because
> it's still trying to boot after collection... and then would possibly be
> able to start building directly.
> Any objections to trying this idea?
The bad thing about this, restarting dhcp can take as much as many seconds.
During that time the service is toast, and I'm unclear that PXE booting
clients will handle that nicely. (If someone can show me that yoinking dhcp
during installs won't screw things up, I have no problem here.)
The other question is if we do autoassignment and autoregeneration do we get
a huge glut here. I'm writing a command line tool to do just this, and it
will probably give us reasonable test data about whether we can do what you
propose safely.
-Sean
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