[ipxe-devel] iPXE with specific list of DHCP server(s)

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| 
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| On Mon, 10/14/13, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
| 
|  On 14/10/13 08:13, Shantanu Gadgil
|  wrote:
|  > I was wondering if I can *specify* the the DHCP
|  server(s) that I want iPXE to accept OFFERs from (using IP
|  address) and ignore others.
|  > The situation is that there could be more than one DHCP
|  server.
|  
|  There is no support for doing this in iPXE.  Such a
|  requirement would normally indicate that the network is
|  misconfigured; what is the motivation for wanting this
|  functionality?
| 
| 'Misconfiguration' ... I don't think so! :)
| /If the dhclient protocol/config/whatever has a 'reject' setting, why
| can't it have a
| an 'accept_only' setting?/
| 
| That said, let me explain the real situation ...
| 
| The IT guys already have one DHCP server running per subnet. (for
| network booting)
| 
| I want to deploy my own PXE booting network, parallel to theirs to
| try out iPXE.
| (which would point the PXE clients to *my* installation server,
| rather than theirs.
| 
| Having this feature allows me to test an alternate configuration even
| when the machine's
| MAC address is present in the IT network.
| 
| Regards,
| Shantanu

Which is exactly a network misconfiguration.  You're attempting to circumvent your IT Services infrastructure in favour of your own.  If you want a test bed, set on up.  You don't need a "real" network to test iPXE.

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