From: Fabian Herschel (fabian.herschel_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Oct 17 2001 - 11:01:04 CEST
From: Fabian Herschel <fabian.herschel@suse.de> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:01:04 +0200 Message-Id: <01101711010400.01032@grimsel> Subject: Re: [alice] DHCP in AutoYast
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2001 23:59 schrieb Donnelly, John:
> Hi .
>
> I'm curious if anyone has configured a SuSE network
what do you mean by the term "SuSE network"? Linux is an open
System so, do you mean TCP/IP and NFS or ???
> using Windows 2000 Server as the host with SuSE clients
> ( Note that this is not my prefered way of doing it ! ) .
>
> Using the info found in http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoyast1/ ,
> we've built floppies that worked with static IP addresses and
> a NFS install.
>
> Now, we'ed like to use DHCP but there are two problems:
>
> 1. The client fails to get his local IP address which linuxrc
> is started . It complains that bootp failed then it preceeds
> trying to do a CD install.
>
> Is linuxrc source avaiable or is it not under GPL ? I'd debug it
> myself if I have to.
Have a look on you SuSE CDs. Sorry I dont know the source package at
the moment. You should find it by usinfg the INDEX.gz
>
> 2. Windoz is the server, but we also have another SuSE client for the
> NFS
> file system, so it's IP address keeps changing on reboot. Does
> the Server parameter in the AutoYast info file support the concept
>
> of a host name instead of a hard coded IP address ?
No. Because then the bootf floppy also had to include the DNS client.
You could fix an adress of a machine, which gets its address from a
DHCP server if you configure that on your DHCP server.
There should be a dynamic IP-address range and also some entries
for the fix ip addresses. You should know the mac address (tthe hardware
adress of your network card.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> John.
>
>
>
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