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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/2014 7:23 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Bill Shirley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Does kickstart send the hostname every time?
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Actually, it doesn't seem to send hostname ever. The only potentially
useful field unique to kickstart in any of the messages is the
vendor-class-identifer. And that appears only in the first DISCOVER/REQUEST.
However, following up on Sten's suggestion, I find that the initrd does
contain a dhclient.conf file. All it contains now is,
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
> root-path, interface-mtu;
Perhaps I can add something to this file.
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<tt>According to the above request list, it should be asking for a
host-name from the server. You didn't see one in the tcpdump?<br>
Something like:<br>
<font color="#993300"> Parameter-Request Option 55,
length 20: <br>
Subnet-Mask, BR, Time-Zone, Default-Gateway<br>
Domain-Name, Domain-Name-Server, Option 119, <font
color="#009900">Hostname</font><br>
Netbios-Name-Server, Netbios-Scope, MTU,
Classless-Static-Route<br>
NTP, MDHCP, PRTR, Option 192<br>
Option 202, Option 203, Option 137, Option 191</font><br>
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Also, is there a send section in dhclient.conf?<br>
<font color="#993300"> send { [ option declaration ]<br>
[, ... option declaration ]}<br>
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The send statement causes the client to send the
specified options to<br>
the server with the specified values. These are full
option<br>
declarations as described in dhcp-options(5). Options
that are<br>
always sent in the DHCP protocol should not be specified
here, except<br>
that the client can specify a requested dhcp-lease-time
option other<br>
than the default requested lease time, which is two
hours. The other<br>
obvious use for this statement is to send information to
the server<br>
that will allow it to differentiate between this client
and other<br>
clients or kinds of clients.</font><br>
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Bill<br>
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