[syslinux] Random numbers in pxe config

Alexey Ivanov rbtz at yandex-team.ru
Wed Nov 17 08:47:04 PST 2010


   Is there a way to produce random number for pxemenu?

   For example i need to balance load between 10 web-servers, so I need
   something like:
     APPEND netboot=http://boot-serv-$RANDOM10/system.img

   Another example is when 1000 boxes starts up at the same time (after
   e.g. Datacenter power failure) it'll be useful to have random values in
   timeout:
     TIMEOUT $RANDOM120

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   Alexey Ivanov

   Yandex Search Admin Team



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