<p dir="ltr">Short reply: that feature got merged in to 2.6.0, see cobbler manual section release notes. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Op 3 jun. 2014 18:51 schreef "Nishanth Aravamudan" <<a href="mailto:nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com">nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Dan,<br>
<br>
On 03.06.2014 [09:26:49 -0700], Dan Alvarez wrote:<br>
> Hi Nishanth,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for the response. Inline... [DA]<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Nishanth Aravamudan <<a href="mailto:nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com">nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</a><br>
> > wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Hi Dan,<br>
> ><br>
> > On 29.05.2014 [15:57:56 -0700], Dan Alvarez wrote:<br>
> > > I read through the thread back in 2012, but it didn't look to have<br>
> > resulted<br>
> > > in a final conclusion. I'm happily using cobbler to set up my DHCP and<br>
> > > DNS for the cluster. It all works fine for my regular ports, but I'm<br>
> > also<br>
> > > using provisioning through cobbler for my ipmi interfaces (DHCP and DNS)<br>
> > > but I loose my DHCP leases on those after some time.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm not sure why there is a difference between the two, but...<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> [DA] I'm pretty sure it is because the ipmi interface rely on DHCP<br>
> still being there after the initial lease expires. The configuration<br>
> learned from DHCP is not persisted in linux for the ipmi interfaces.<br>
> You could argue that I could provision ipmi separately, but I'm hooked<br>
> on cobbler and would like to keep all my provisioning in one place.<br>
<br>
Ok, that makes sense.<br>
<br>
> > > Why don't the dhcp entries persist even with netboot-enabled set to<br>
> > False?<br>
> > > Is there a way to force the dhcp entries for an interface to be<br>
> > persistent?<br>
> ><br>
> > Upstream has commited an option "always_write_dhcp_entries" for exactly<br>
> > this purpose.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> [DA] Do you know what version of cobbler I need to pick up for this?<br>
> Thanks<br>
<br>
It only was merged in April of this year, so I'm not sure it's in any<br>
release.<br>
<br>
-Nish<br>
<br>
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