> Just so you know (In case you don't), you can take physically the
> network card from a first computer and place it in the second and then
> DHCP will think the second computer is the first computer, and assign
> the host name and IP address of the first computer to the second
> computer.
>
That would be nice. They're mainboard mounted :-)
> My big worry about all this is you need control of a DHCP server to
> perform network booting which is a dependency for auto installation
> which to me is one of the best cluster management technologies I could
> think of.
>
Yes, we've setup kickstart server and the uni DHCP has configured our
machine to go looking for it (next-server parameter). This was a pain
but it works nicely. Our WNs are on a private net with our own DHCP,
service nodes are on uni backbone, we'd get hung-drawn-and-quartered if
we ran a DHCP on uni network.
Peter
> Do you have a kick start server?
>
> Regards
>
> Owen
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