multiple install servers; memdisk

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 09:22:42PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > 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?
> > > 
> Sorry, but I didn't get the point -- why would the second one let the node boot
> from its harddisk???

Suppose you got two DHCP servers, only one of them acting as FAI install
server. Only the FAI server would have a specific PXE/TFTP entry for the
host to be installed...(because only it can serve FAI to the client) -
the other one would have a default PXE entry (localboot). Now you'll
be playing Russian roulette, guess which server will respond first...

Steffen