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Re: Patch for export IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment variabl


From: Yoann Moulin
Subject: Re: Patch for export IP addresses from PXE into grub2 enviroment variables
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:35 +0200
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>>> Having the Client IP avaible inside grub.cfg might be useful for some.
>>> Then you could have one grub.cfg for all your machines and if one or a
>>> small number of it needs some special stuff, you could just check for
>>> the IP inside the grub.cfg. Then you don't need to use a seperate one
>>> for them.
>>
>>  Please, no.  That's terribly non-scalable for a large number of
>> clients (enterprise deployments).  We definitely need a solution that
>> includes the configuration file to use as a DHCP option.
>>
> One doesn't prevent another. And then it will be up to administrator to
> choose the way they want their system to work
>>  --S

might be good to get option-150 first for compatibility with old grub
than developed new feature ? I mean, this feature can be useful for some
people but option-150 must be need by more people ?

Yoann




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