PXE Based on client-hostname

[Simon Hobson]

Martin McCormick wrote:
>	Is there any reason why a client can not devise a common
>string as the first part of a set of computers so that we can
>match against it and put them in to a class that will give them
>the PXE boot they need?
>
>	I told one of our clients that we can do this, but I
>am just checking for gotchas.

Ahh, the "sold it, can we do it ?" problem :-)

Yes, you just need to do something like : match if <normal check for 
PXE> and substring(hostname, something, something)="some text"

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