[Maas-devel] Support for ARM PXE booting, esp. in absence of control over DHCP

Jeroen Vermeulen jtv at canonical.com
Mon Aug 20 09:00:51 UTC 2012


On 2012-08-20 15:16, Gavin Panella wrote:

> Primarily it would have to come from manufacturers; they will know the
> ranges being shipped in their kit. We can't rely on the OUI part of a
> MAC address because it's too coarse grained (though we /could/ use it
> as a hint in the UI).

This does rather rely on the ARM servers having customized ethernet 
interfaces though, doesn't it?  I can't imagine that situation lasting 
for very long.


Jeroen





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