Two subnets, one with PXE clients

[Simon Hobson]

Osmany wrote:

>Now the PXE Client boots perfectly with the IP it's meant
>to have, but now I have another problem. Once the PXE client loads, it
>begins configuring itself to load the OS and obviously does a
>DHCPDISCOVER once again because it is no longer a PXE Client but I find
>that the dhcp server assigns an IP from the subnet 10.25.4.0/24 which I
>don't want it to have those IPs because the LTSP server does not have
>any of those IP's.

Well of course, that's exactly how you've configured it !

Once the client boots it's OS, it's not a PXE client, doesn't match 
the PXE class, and so is only allowed an IP from the 10.25.4.0/24 
subnet. If you want certain clients to continue getting a 
192.168.0.0/24 address after boot, then you'll need to add a class 
that matches them, and add the appropriate allow/deny statements.

Eg :

class "LTSPClients" {
   match if ...
}

shared-network ... {
   subnet 10.25.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
     ...
     pool{
       ...
       allow unknown-clients;
       deny members of "PXEClients";
       deny members of "LTSPClients";
     }
   }

   subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
     pool{
       ...
       allow members of "PXEClients";
       allow members of "LTSPClients";
     }
   }
}

The next issue you may find, at least if you boot Windows clients, is 
that if the client supplies a Client-ID then it will be considered a 
different client and would still be given a different IP. This is a 
well known 'problem', and I believe there is finally a means of 
getting round it without patching the source in the latest version 
4.2.0a ?

-- 
Simon Hobson

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