Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi Sue, >> >> In the case of needing to add a static ip for the client on the dhcp >> server, we need to run pntadm, correct? Assuming the user has not >> setup a set of addresses for clients in their dhcp server. >> >> Do we need to address this case in this bug? I ran in to this issue >> yesterday, specifically I ran the dhtadm commands but my client >> couldn't boot because the I didn't have the clients ip address setup. >> I didn't know this, and when I ran the dhtadm commands it didn't >> fail, so I was kind of clueless. Sundar helped me understand the issue. >> >> I am not sure it is feasible to provide this type of information, >> unless we check somehow. Is there a way to check? The dhtadm command >> will return 0 even in the case I describe above. > Sarah, > > pntadm uses to add, delete or modify IP address records in the DHCP > table. Since DHCP server is remote, we can not check what IP addresses > are available in the DHCP server or which address should be assigned > to the client. However, we could tell the user that IP address > assignment for the client or set of clients should be done. > That seems like a reasonable compromise. That is letting the user know that the IP address assignment for the client should be done.
Thanks for the explanation. sarah > - Sundar >> >> thanks, >> sarah >> *** >>> Please review the changes for: >>> >>> 7747 Installadm should print actual commands needed for the DHCP setup >>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7747 >>> >>> which are posted at: >>> >>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sohn/7747 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sue >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
