bootp support wildcard hardware address

[Jacky]

Hi Shane,

Following your instruction, it works!

Well, I was too smart :-), I was mislead by the dhcpd man page quoted 
below.
"Each  BOOTP client must be explicitly declared in the dhcpd.conf 
file.   A very basic ..."

A big thank you.

Jacky

Shane Kerr wrote:

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>>Hi,
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>>I have used PXELinux with dhcpd and the client boots up OK with the following configuration:
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>>subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>>	range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.120;
>>	option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>>}
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>>host llama0 {
>>	hardware ethernet 00:11:22:34:56:77;
>>	filename "pxelinux.0";
>>}
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>>The problem is: I don't know in advance what is the bootp client's MAC address (i.e. I want to boot any client).
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>>I tried remove the "hardware" line but the client failed to boot.
>>Is there anyway to put a wildcard MAC address in settings.
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>I may be missing something, but why don't you include the filename statement in
>the subnet declaration, or as a global declaration?
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>subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>        range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.120;
>        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>	filename "pxelinux.0";
>}
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>- --
>Shane
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