On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:31:45 -0500, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
James Cammarata wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:19 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen
> <kanarip(a)kanarip.com> wrote:
>
>> James Cammarata wrote:
>>
>>> You can match on the IP/MAC address, can't you? So we could
>>>
>> theoretically
>>
>>> at least use a custom sif for systems?
>>>
>>>
>> Under "FILENAME REMAPPING", in in.tftpd's man page:
>>
>> \i The IP address of the requesting host, in dotted-quad notation
>> (e.g. 192.0.2.169).
>>
>> \x The IP address of the requesting host, in hexadecimal notation
>> (e.g. C00002A9).
>>
>> This would imply your nodes get reserved DHCP leases which isn't
>> feasible for most situations (such as multi-subnet setups since host
>> declarations are global and not subnet specific).
Dangit, just realized that \x is the IP in hex format, not the MAC... back
to the drawing board :\ This would still work if you specify both the mac
and IP, but I don't know how many people do that currently.
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