[Gllug] Fedora - Large installation Help

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:45:51AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> You've hit a nail on the head though.
> How do you gather MAC addresses for 200 machines when they all arrive
> out of the box?
> You might be lucky and they are on a label on the back (hah!)

Do lazy allocation - ie, on first bootup, watch the DHCP server logs
and each time it hands out an IP addr, for a MAC addr you've not seen
before, capture that pair & enter it as a permanent mapping. You might
even be able to script some nasty perl to watch the DHCP server leases
log & automate this.


Dan.
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