On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I am trying to setup cobbler in the following scenario: > > Cobbler server > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Has a "build network" which is non-routable and presented to all boxes > Has small subnet management network (/27) which is used to access the box > and do other related management tasks. > > Server that are being build > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Servers have access to the build network > Servers are on there own specific management networks which is not in the > same vlan as cobbler and with no iphelper installed.
This is a fairly normal, straight forward setup. The only question I have is, do the servers have constant access to the build network or is it a VLAN that is switched on only when building the system? > What I would like to happen: > * The server that is being build should dhcp from the build network > * The rest of the networking on the server is static and should be set > statically. > * The "normal" network aka management networking is vmxnet3 so won't work > anyway because I am still using RHEL 5.8 for various reasons. > > It seems that cobbler assumes it has global access to all networks mentioned > in server config, is this correct or do I have it wrong? Cobbler doesn't assume that, but since it serves just about everything over HTTP/TFTP the IP it is listening on for those services needs to be routable from the systems you are building. That should not be an issue if you have the build network presented to all of your servers as you indicate above. Typically the greatest issue people have here is with PXE, since DHCP is layer-2 only and can't cross network boundaries without assistance (namely "ip helper" on cisco hardware). > I assume dhcp tag would come in handy here but not quite sure how to use it. > The man page makes a cursory mention of it and then refers you to the wiki > which have no mention of it. Well non easily found. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
