Conditional expression inside pool

[Sharkey, Patrick M.]

Simon's suggestion worked wonderfully.

Thanks. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Simon Hobson
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:50 AM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Conditional expression inside pool
> 
> Sharkey, Patrick M. wrote:
> 
> >What is the correct syntax for conditionally setting the 
> next-server and
> >filename directives inside a pool?
> 
> Wrong question !
> 
> >I have one subnet defined where I permit unknown clients to obtain a
> >lease. This is to accommodate systems performing a PXE boot. 
> However, I
> >discovered that known clients were unable to obtain a lease when PXE
> >booting, so I added the next-server and filename directives 
> to the known
> >clients pool. I would prefer to conditionally set these directives if
> >the client is a member of class "PXE" as defined below:
> >
> >class "PXE" {
> >         match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
> >"PXEClient";
> >}
> 
> Right question !
> 
> Try :
> 
> class "PXE" {
>          match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = 
> "PXEClient";
>                  next-server 192.168.153.26;
>                  filename "OSChooser\\i386\\startrom.com";
> }
> 
> 
> 
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