Is DHCP server absolutely required - new FAI user

[Karthik Kambatla]

Thanks a lot, Patrick and Henning.

Sweet. I guess that should work for us, I ll talk to the IT guys and come
back in case we get stuck again.

Thanks again,
Karthik

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Patrick Cervicek <
patrick at failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote:
>
>  I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP
>> server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP
>> server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem.
>>
>
> According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/**filesystems/nfsroot.txt the
> syntax is: ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<**gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<**
> device>:<autoconf>
>
> instead of ip=dhcp you could try with ip=192.168.1.100
> (You should talk to your IT department before using any IPs to avoid
> collisions)
>
> But you can try ip=dhcp. Some IT department also maintain a dhcp pool with
> static IPs wich corresponden to the MAC adresses of your static machines.
>
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