From owner-freebsd-config Sat Sep 4 23:26:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles529.castles.com [208.214.165.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BFE14FFF; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09759; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909050619.XAA09759@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Dillon Cc: config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 00:20:48 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 23:19:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > You need a physical token of some sort to identify the machine; either > > you use the MAC address or in some cases the GUID or UUID storage (on an > > intel system) or some other NVRAM token depending on the system in > > question. > > > > But the ethernet MAC address is about the only universal uniquifier > > that any system has, so you really don't have much choice. > > I was thinking more along the line of the dhcp-client-identifier which > is sent to the DHCP server by the client (which I guess is what you > are referring to, also, in the case of the "token"). Since the > hostname can be used as this identifier, it would be possible for me > to give each install disk a hostname of install# and then configure > dhcpd to give anything with hostname install* a certain configuration. In this case, the physical token is the floppy disk. > Would the DHCP client in the loader support doing this? If it didn't, you would have the source code, and I would be very receptive to any input along those lines. 8) -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message