[K12OSN] dhcpd.conf for diskless booting old iMacs

[Jim McQuillan]

Eric,

You mentioned a problem with 'option 211', but in your packet trace,
it's option 221.

Is that just a typo in your email, or have you been looking for the
wrong option ?

Jim.


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Harrison wrote:

>
> I'm not having much luck getting dhcpd to recognize the "Apple MacNC"
> option 211 that is being sent by the old iMac I'm banging on. Hopefully
> someone will be able to figure it out (see attached tcpdump)
>
> I did get it to work based off the vendor-portion of the MAC address, see the
> attached dhcpd.conf. Are there any reasons NOT to do it this way?
>
> -Eric