On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:01 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > At present our physical hosts use DHCP and our Xen guests do not. I'd > > like to do one or the other. The only issue we have going completely > > DHCP is that hosts like the proxy boxes require some aliased > > interfaces[1] which isn't really a problem but it's a minor > > inconvenience if someone is looking through the dhcpd.conf file for > > free IP's. > > > > Option 1: > > Completely Static IP's, everywhere. (Except for some network devices?) > > > > Option 2: > > Completely DHCP IP's, except for aliases or devices unable to use DHCP > One side note about option 2, a more robust DHCP environment also allows > for very useful pxe boot. > what we've done here is: dhcp to boot/pxe and then we convert the dhcp info in %post of the kickstart to static-info and drop it in the network config so we don't have to rely on dhcp for everything and have a spof on the dhcp server, but we can also use pxe/dhcp sensibly. -sv
