On 26 December 2011 18:21, Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, all the PXE boot agents I've looked at don't support > supplying custom options, which means we have to open up our DHCP server > to accept packets from anyone. If there were a way to force the DHCP > client in a boot agent to provide those options, then we could run in > the same way in diskless mode as we do for separate media. > > Most of the people using this project that are interested in this > project get a supported hardware kit from us to build a small cluster, > so even if the solution is vendor-specific it wouldn't be a huge problem > since we control what hardware we ship out. Currently, we use Realtek > NICs and their boot agent.
iPXE (http://ipxe.org) allows you to set a custom DHCP user class - I use this to do something similar, perhaps it will work in your situation? You can flash iPXE into certain network cards - I just boot it from the default PXE boot agent. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
