Collecting Ethernet adresses necessary?

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:00:22AM +0200, Werner Fischer wrote:
> I'm new to FAI, but it seems very useful for me. I was not able to find
> information on some of my questions (after reading the FAI Guide, using
> Google and searching the mailing list archive), so here is my post:
> 
> I want to use FAI to install two different kinds of systems, "system1"
> and "system2" (so I will use two different classes for that). I will
> only do a first-time installation, the machines are afterwards not
> connected to my network and out of my control (so I will also not need
> the nice FAI features for re-installing a machine later on).
> 
> Question 1:
> Chapter 3.5 "Collecting Ethernet addresses" in the FAI Guide describes
> that it is necessary to collect the MAC addresses and assign hostnames
> and IP addresses to them.
> I don't care about the IP address during installation (the IP addresses
> will be changed afterwards anyway). The hostname should always be the
> same for a machine in a class (either "system1" or "system2"). Is there
> a way to omit the step "Collecting MAC addresses"?
> 
> Question 2:
> The hardware for machines for "system1" class and "system2" class is
> exactly the same. If the faiserver has two network interfaces, is it
> possible to use both network interfaces for FAI installation in a way
> that machines, that are connected to eth0 on the faiserver will be in
> class "system1" and machines, that are connected to eth1 on the
> faiserver will be in class "system2"?
> Any other ideas on how to differentiate two types of systems when the
> hardware is the same and I do not want to rely on MAC/IP address based
> mechanisms?


Both questions can be solved with a proper configurate DHCP server.
DHCP sessions on eth0 are "system1"
DHCP sessions on eth1 are "system2"

> Thanks in advance for any ideas about that,
> Werner Fischer


Enjoy reading the fine manual of your DHCP server.

Geert Stappers
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bottom-post.html