Re: dhcpd configuration
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:38:53PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> On Monday 16 February 2004 07:57 pm, Peter Quackenbush wrote:
> > First, I'm not sure if this is the correct mailing list.
>
> Since your question is a general DHCP client question, this list is the
> right place.
>
> > Is there some configuration I can give to the dhcp clients to tell them
> > which dhcp server to use?
>
> From the man page for dhclient.conf:
>
> reject ip-address;
>
> The reject statement causes the DHCP client to reject offers from
> servers who use the specified address as a server identifier. This
> can be used to avoid being configured by rogue or misconfigured dhcp
> servers, although it should be a last resort - better to track down the
> bad DHCP server and fix it.
>
The problem is that it requires configuration on EVERY SINGLE cluster
machine. It's not really optimal if you want a real netboot kind of
cluster. The OP is trying to do something DHCP wasn't designed to do.
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