On 01/03/2012 10:39 AM, James Braid wrote: > 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.
I think this is exactly what we want. Thanks for the tip; I knew something had to be out there somewhere! -- -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ _______________________________________________ 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/
