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Re: using wanboot for Sun installs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Wed Nov 30 11:44:11 2005
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:43:58 -0500
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On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Robert A Basch wrote:
> In recent testing, though, I encountered an apparent bug in the
> wanboot software. For certain values of the client-id parameter,
> the value returned by netbootinfo (the magic program which
> retrieves wanboot parameter settings) has trailing garbage. I
> will pursue this problem with Sun. But even if this bug cannot
> be fixed, I think we can deal with it by prepending the IP address
> to the identifier (assuming that any garbage is trailing), instead
> of appending.
Not too surprisingly, Sun has not shown much interest in this, as
netbootinfo is considered a private interface; their install does
not use netbootinfo to get the client-id setting. But I found that
the setting is available as a property in the PROM device tree
information, accessible via the libdevinfo APIs. So I decided to
write a tool to obtain the value, instead of relying on netbootinfo;
this is in /mit/install/solaris/diskless/getpromprop.c, if anyone is
interested. (This information is also shown in "prtconf -p -v" output",
but I decided writing the tool was less painful than parsing that
output). I still plan to prepend the IP address to the identifier,
since the DHCP configuration I gave to Mark keys on the suffix,
and I don't see a compelling reason to change it back.
Bob
