Some PXE-clients need different options

[Simon Hobson]

Per Steinar Iversen wrote:

>The problem now is that a rather large number of PXE clients 
>suddenly need completely different boot options. These clients are 
>on all our subnets and they probably move between subnets also.
>
>The only identifier for these machines is the mac-address.

Is that MAC address as in they are all random devices, or MAC address 
as in they are all a specific manufacturer ?

If they are random devices then you are stuck using either host 
declarations or classes/subsclasses (see 'man dhcpd.conf' and look 
for subclassing). In either case, you are stuck entering a list of 
MAC addresses to be treated differently.

If it's a case of "all devices from a specific manufacturer" then you 
might be able to get away with matching on the OUI (first 3 octets of 
MAC address) - see substring in (IIRC) 'man dhcpd-eval'.

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