multiple install servers; memdisk

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Anders Jackson wrote:
> > BTW, I still like the idea of having multiple DHCP servers. 
> > Unfortunately, the second one (if no FAI server) would simply let the
> > node boot from its harddisk - not exactly what's intended.
> > Switch off the additional DHCP servers for FAI installations?
> 
> I do think there is some sync problems having more than one DHCP-server
> if you have dynamic IP-addressess delivered by them. If/when the server
> restarts they seems to loose track of which IP-numbers are used.  And
> when one of them deliver one IP-number, they have to check with the
> other DHCP-servers. At least I remeber it to be those problems with
> multiple DHCP-servers and IP-numbers (that is, modulo bit-loss in my
> memory :-)

No need to worry: static addresses bound to the if card MAC.
It's just that the systems themselves don't bear a name tag - 
which makes them easily interchangeable. (Slaves don't have
a face...)

Steffen