From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dhcp: allow to set transmitted vendor id
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:56:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307075601.GK12248@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331055375-21439-1-git-send-email-enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
On 18:36 Tue 06 Mar , Enrico Scholz wrote:
> For net boot setups it is useful to submit boot params like server or
> bootfile over dhcp. To distinguish barebox from e.g. pxe machines, a
> custom vendor id can be sent in dhcp discover/request messages.
>
> E.g. the ISC dhcp server can be configured with
>
> | if substring(option vendor-class-identifier,0,8) = "barebox:" {
> | next-server 192.168.3.24;
> | server-name "192.168.3.24";
> | option tftp-server-name "192.168.3.24";
> | option root-path = concat("/srv/sysroots/by-mac/",
> | binary-to-ascii (16, 8, "-", substring (hardware, 1, 6)));
> | }
>
> to sent boot params which are valid for barebox hosts only.
like the idea
but the vendor id is barebox and can be overwrite it for each eth device via
param
Best Regards,
J.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 17:36 Enrico Scholz
2012-03-07 7:56 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-03-07 8:42 ` Sascha Hauer
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