[debian-lan-devel] [PATCH] Reserved leases for member client machines

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi, Andi,

على الثلاثاء 13 أيلول 2016 ‫12:04، كتب Andreas B. Mundt:
> Hello Afif,
> 
> sorry, I had/have problems with my mail setup here, perhaps you did
> not get this email yet.

Indeed, I didn't get it until now. I don't see it on the list archive
either.

>  I resend it below.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 01:51:31AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>
>> One of the changes to the current debian-lan-config that I thought would
>> make things easier as I'm working on the config-package system was to
>> avoid directly specifying the IP addresses that client machines are to
>> use, leaving it instead to the DHCP server to figure out. The attached
>> patch (also viewable at
>> <https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/afif/debian-lan-config.git/commit/?h=topic/node-setup&id=af1ad30fe0db4f6283d2fbae498c146342075af2>)
>> uses reserved addresses instead. It also tracks the machines in separate
>> files that are included by /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf.
> 
> […]
> 
> Thanks a lot for your work and patch!  What do you think:  Should we
> apply the patch to master or first give it a try in an
> experimental/development branch?
> 

I've tested it to successfully set the PXE configuration when the client
first boots and to add multiple workstations, though additional testing
is always helpful and welcome. I was thinking about posting the
dhcpd.conf to the isc-dhcp mailing list for review, but I wanted to make
sure that you are on board with the goals of this patch before taking it
too far.

Perhaps it will be better to keep a development branch. I may need to
make other changes or adjust this one in the course of my work on the
package-based system. Are you thinking about an upload to experimental?

Thanks and regards
Afif

P.S. Update on the package-based system: I kind of got carried away and
debconf-ified some of the settings from SERVER_A.var. My latest work is
at
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/afif/debian-lan/fai-config.git/commit/?h=topic/debconf

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