List,
I have a 4.1 GENERIC machine acting as DHCP server, serving out IP
addresses to 7 diskless client machines. Each client machine needs to
be pushed a different configuration file in order to start a process
once booted. There is a chance that any number of clients may be
replaced at any time.
My initial thinking was to define a range of 7 IP addresses in
dhcpd.conf so when the client has got an IP it can then request a file
named as the clients IP address from the server. However if a client
needs replacing the new client will dhcp for an address but dhcpd will
complain (justifiably) that there are no spare addresses (the lease-time
being 1 day).
So if I defined a large pool of IP addresses in dhcpd.conf that would
avert the problem described above, however I'm struggling to think of a
solution on how would clients would request the correct configuration
file? and how could I handle new clients replacing broken ones with
regard to dishing out the correct configuration file?
Apologies for such woolly posting, I'm just hoping for some inspired ideas.
Thanks for your time
