On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Scott Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:01 AM, John Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:52, Will S. G. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What I would like to do is to set up a list of MAC addresses, along >> with the IP addresses a head of time, and then have puppet rewrite the >> networking configuration of the host based on MAC address after it has >> successfully signed the certificate and communicated with the client >> host. >> >> Possible? If so, any guidance, examples or tips on how to achieve >> this? Perhaps, more importantly, would this be the right approach? >> > While this can be done, I think using DHCP would be better here. DHCP can be > configured to serve "static" IP addresses based on the MAC address. You can > then use puppet to maintain DHCP configuration. > > I'm eyeing a similar configuration. In our network, we don't control the > network, only the Linux servers, so configuring DHCP isn't really an > option. > I'd like to see how others are tackling this in similarly restricted > environments. Using gpxe?
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