Fwd: Problem with duplicate address - PXE client

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:13:37 +0200
>From: "Richard Migneron" <richard at migneron.com>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Fwd: Problem with duplicate address - PXE client
>
>Okay,
>How do you disable DDNS for PXE when you don't know that the client is in
>PXE mode.
>
>Our PXE server is on Novell Netware 6.5, but in the DHCP configuration file
>we never need to add anything to tell the DHCP server to handover the client
>to the Novell PXE server.  (no next-server, and no filename instructions are
>required) .  See attached conf file.
>
>I've just read about the "allow/deny duplicates".   Anything there would
>help ??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Richard
>

Hi Richard

Search the list archives for 'PXEClient' - there are many examples
where a class is defined based on the vendor identifier. Inside the
class you can turn off ddns and do many other useful things. eg set
the lease time to be much shorter.

class "pxe-clients" {
  match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";
  ddns-updates off;
  max-lease-time 900;
}


regards,
-glenn