multiple install servers; memdisk

[Michael Tautschnig]

> 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...
>

As long as you are using ISC's dhcpd, the "next-server" statement should tell
your clients, where to fetch their images from. I'm using 3 DHCP servers and my
FAI-server is a completely different host ...

HTH,
Michael