On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Johnston, Christopher (IDS DM&DS) wrote: > Tail your access logs coming from apache.. (im assuming your using apache) you will see the client coming in and requesting the file. The ethernet address, aka MAC address, is normally burned into the NIC and is not directly accessible to a peer. Generally speaking, the IP address isn't reliable either: think on all the computers with the IP address 192.168.1.1. Of course, most times in an install environment, the person doing the install knows enough to judge whether IP addresses are reliable - they are here, because _I_ control them. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Nilsson (GIS) [mailto:Daniel.Nilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 10:21 AM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Kickstart http parameters > > > Hi all! > > Is there a way to get the ethernet-adress of a client when its requesting the ks.cfg-file from a http-server? > > I want to generate the ks.cfg with a cfg-script and the only unique id on my hosts is ethernet-adress. > > Or is it possible to run "%pre" commands in a generic ks.cfg and create the entire new ks.cfg from there? > > /// D -- Please, reply only to the list.
