[gPXE] DHCP Client ID in gPXE 1.0.0?

[Steven Shiau]

On 2010/3/17 下午 06:56, Michael Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 Mar 2010 09:20:32 Steven Shiau wrote:
>> The problem is, the MAC addresses might change. For example, if you are
>> testing some new machines, especially in the massive deployment, batch
>> to batch, you won't like the idea to input the MAC addresses in the
>> dhcpd config file.
>>
>> My question is, why gPXE differs in the DHCP Client ID? Why it's not the
>> same with etherboot or PXE?
>
> gPXE passes the link-layer address in the DHCP client identifier (as per RFC
> 2132 section 9.14).
>
> This is a legacy of Infiniband support; it used to be the case that the client
> identifier was the only way to identify an IPoIB DHCP request, since the 20-
> byte IPoIB MAC address is too long for the 16-byte chaddr field (see RFC 4390).
> However, gPXE now fills the chaddr field with the 8-byte Infiniband GUID, so this
> problem no longer exists.
>
> gPXE continues to set the DHCP client identifier for backwards compatibility.
Any option I can turn it off? Make it like what PXE or Etherboot does?
Thanks.

Steven.
>
> Michael

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