Re: using fai-chboot with mac-address
Hi Torge,
On Sat, 29 May 2010 18:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
wrote:
I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be
pretty
straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for : in the
hostname and
handle this accordingly in the host2hex function of fai-chboot.
Best,
Michael
Yes, I think so ;-) Here is a small patch I have written yesterday;
[...]
Thanks a lot for quickly providing a patch. I've slightly adapted your patch and
dropped the part where a hostname of exactly 12 xdigits is also taken as a mac
address - in my opinion it should be acceptable to use : or - as separators to
ensure there is no confusion (12 xdigits could well be a valid hostname). I've
also updated the man page.
@Holger: I think the match as done should be fine
(/^([[:xdigit:]]{2}[:-]){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}$/), no way to confuse this with IPv6
addresses. But thanks for spotting the possible problem, it made me take extra
care!
The patch is included in FAI 3.4~beta1+experimental25. Testing is much
appreciated!!!
Best,
Michael
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Re: using fai-chboot with mac-address
On Sat, 29 May 2010 18:06:02 +0200, Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org
wrote:
I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be
pretty
straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for : in the
hostname and
handle this accordingly in the host2hex function of fai-chboot.
Best,
Michael
Yes, I think so ;-) Here is a small patch I have written yesterday;
#---
sub host2hex {
my $host = shift;
if ($host =~ /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+$/) {
# hostname is already an IP address
return ip2hex($host);
}
return ('no IP','default') if ($host =~ /^default/);
# - - - Mac-Adresse als Host
if ($host =~ /^([0-9a-fA-F]{2}([:-]|$)){6}$/i) { # Pattern-Matching
Mac-Address with Seperators - or :
$host = lc $host; # Lowercase for pxe-file
my @nums = split /[:-]/, $host;
$mac = 01-$nums[0]-$nums[1]-$nums[2]-$nums[3]-$nums[4]-$nums[5]; #
build pxe-filename
return $mac;
};
if ($host =~ /^[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$/i) { # Pattern-Matching Mac-Address w/o
Seperators
$host = lc $host;
my @nums = split /(.{2})/, $host;
$mac = 01-$nums[1]-$nums[3]-$nums[5]-$nums[7]-$nums[9]-$nums[11]; #
build pxe-filename
return $mac;
};
my $h = gethost($host);
die $0: unknown host: $host\n unless $h;
if ( @{$h-addr_list} 1 ) {
my $i;
for my $addr ( @{$h-addr_list} ) {
$ipadr = inet_ntoa($addr);
printf $host \taddr #%d is [%s]\n, $i++, $ipadr if $debug;
}
} else {
$ipadr = inet_ntoa($h-addr);
printf $host \taddress is [%s]\n, $ipadr if $debug;
}
ip2hex($ipadr);
}
#
Perhaps it is useful for one or the other, in the future.
Regards, Torge
Re: using fai-chboot with mac-address
Hi! Is there any good reason for this, that it is not possible to initiate installations based on the MAC address? Like making an output-file 01-00-11-22-33-44-55 from fai-chboot -IBv 00:11:22:33:44:55 ?? Is this a design decision or did it simply needed no one? I think it's just that nobody requested it before. But it should be pretty straight forward to come up with a patch: Just check for : in the hostname and handle this accordingly in the host2hex function of fai-chboot. Best, Michael pgptHHjQKYyFB.pgp Description: PGP signature
