If you use "get-lease-hostnames" instead of "use-host-decl" in your
dhcpd.conf, the hostnames passed to the thin client will come
from /etc/hosts (or DNS). So, you can use that trick in the generic
section, and then just have hostname entries in /etc/hosts for each IP
in the "range".
NOTE:
Be sure to put:
<ip> <hostname>
in /etc/hosts and NOT
<ip> <hostname.domainname>
if you use hostnames in your lts.conf file when you specify settings.
HTH,
-Gideon
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:22 +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> This piece of magic looks very interesting as it may prevent a lot of system
> administration work:
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.199;
> if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient" {
> filename "/tftpboot/lts/2.4.26-ltsp-3/pxelinux.0";
> }
> else{
> filename "/tftpboot/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.26-ltsp-3";
> }
> }
> It's from: http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/DhcpExample
>
> But will this allow the current locale device impletation still to keep on
> working. AFAIK the current locale device implementation needs names to be
> able to work. In the configuration above no names are configured, in
> contradiction to my dhcp file, that has e.g.:
>
> host ws01 {
> hardware ethernet ............;
> fixed-address ...........;
> filename............;
> }
>
> if the host { } is left out of configuration file, the workstation may get
> different ip addresses each times it connects to the server. It will get the
> name that corresponds to the ip address from the DNS server so, all in all it
> looks to me that "substring" dhcp configuration will just work, but a
> confirmation would be nice.
>
> A related question to this, in case the thin client needs requires additional
> options, can this work in combination with the "substring" dhcp
> configuration? If this can work how should it be done? If;
>
> host ws15 {
> hardware ethernet ............;
> fixed-address ...........;
> filename............;
> option option-128 .........;
> option option-129 .........;
> }
>
> Doesn't the 'host ws15' configuration conflict with the name given out by the
> DNS server?
> Perhaps I get it, the ip range of the subnet of the "substring" dhcp
> configuration, should be outside the ip addresses that the "host { }" part
> gives out. Is that correct?
>
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