[syslinux] IPAPPEND option?

[Jeff Sadowski]

Perfect I know you said its bad but I think my case is
exactly why this exists. I don't need any more info
for networking. I wasn't sending any more info than 
that on my dhcp anyways and I don't need to worry
about leases I want it to stick with one ip address
for one mac address hard assigned by the dhcp deamon
no lease expire. And this simplifies the boot image
tremendously. This will work perfect for my cluster
environment.

--- "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> > 
> > So if I want both BOOTIF an ip environment
> variables I
> > do
> > IPAPPEND 3
> > is that correct?
> > 
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > Ok reason for asking is this I have lots of
> machines
> > with multiple ethernet interfaces and I do not
> want it
> > to try one interface for boot up and then a
> different
> > interface for getting an address. I'd rather it
> use
> > the same interface both times.
> > I have these machines in a cluster and want them
> > not to have to have dhcpcd or dhclient on them if
> they
> > don't need it.
> 
> BAD!  BAD BAD BAD!
> 
> > so it would be better and more
> > streamlined to pass the ip information via
> environment
> > variables. Thats what IPAPPEND is for right? So
> that
> > means "IPAPPEND 3" will create the "ip"
> environment
> > variable and "BOOTIF" environment variable
> correct?
> 
> It will, but this is exactly the wrong way of doing
> things.  Really, you 
> are much, much better off running a proper DHCP
> client.  For one thing, 
> it will honour the lease system, and is capable of
> carrying more 
> information.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 



		
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