Re: DHCP VCI (was: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

[Dax Kelson <dax gurulabs com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:08, Rudi Chiarito wrote:

> Then there's DHCP Vendor Class Identifier support for pump and Anaconda.
> My understanding is that this made it to Red Hat's internal CVS
> repository, but - quite obviously - was a bit late for FC1. I have
> uploaded separate new patches for FC1 and RH9, along with source and
> binary packages:
> 
> http://uberh4x0r.org/~yax/dhcp_classid/

Rudi, a couple comments on the VCI patch.

Isn't the main goal here so that the DHCP can return conditional
responses (aka paths to unique kickstart files) based on the VCI?

IMO, it should send a VCI by default. If it doesn't and it requires
specifying the ksclass option, I might as well type the explicit path to
the kickstart file (ala ks=http://server/foo.ks).

The default VCI should identify:

* The distro (RHEL, Fedora, Debian, etc)
* The version of the distro (version of Anaconda?)
* The CPU architecture

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs