On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:39:01AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <871vrtasei....@klein.localdomain>, Alok G. Singh wrote: > >The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the > >192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I have setup another DHCP server to respond to > >PXE in the same subnet. Now, how do I make sure the two DHCP servers > >play nice together ? That is, the router's DHCP server should be used > >unless DHCPREQUEST is from a PXE client. > > I'm not sure you can. The first step would be to figure out what, if > anything, is in the DHCPREQUEST packet that would indicate the sender is a > "PXE client". Then, configure one server to not respond to those requests > and > one to only respond to those requests.
Just to confirm, I know that you *can* do this, i.e. a PXE client sends out different information than a regular DHCP client... I just can't recall what the difference is off-hand. > I don't think there is, strictly speaking, a difference. But, a DHCP client > on a booted system will just ignore all the netboot information in the > response. So, generally you just run one DHCP server that gives everyone the > netboot information and there's little downside. This is probably the best way. Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org