On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:29:10PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: > Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > >While I am here: I'm looking into memdisk to do automated BIOS updates. > >Is there a simple way to tell the server(s) to remove the PXE link > >when done? (I could imagine to try to TFTP a file that isn't there, > >and watch the messages for this particular error, then translate the > >IP to hex notation and pick the file below pxelinux.cfg - a hack but > >one that has been working with our RedHat cluster for ages) > > I've written a small CGI script in perl that takes a `secret' token and > the IP address as parameter, and disables FAI's PXE link if the token is > correct. That seems to work rather fine. Mail me if you're interested > in the script.
Since this can be used (and extended) to also set PXE links, the answer is, of course, yes please! Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) SciencePark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam * http://www.aei.mpg.de * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html