RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP

[Frantisek Krecmer]

Hi Brandon,

thank you for your answer. However I am not able to tell you why not DHCP.
Servers (dhcp clients) have 10Gbit fibre cables and are connected to switch
ports with VLAN tagging - maybe it is problem to configure it. Who knows. I
am not network admin and working only with info I have ;) I have to discuss
it with colleagues from IP services team.
Anyway, now it is personal challenge to get it working even without DHCP ;)

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ess, Brandon <Brandon.Ess at atk.com> wrote:

> May I ask why you cannot have a DHCP server? As far as Im aware DHCP is
> required for PXEboot to work. The PXE client with get an IP packet with
> other information such as where to TFTP the rest pf the pxe files.
>
> So in my environment, DHCP packets are received on our WAN gateway and
> then forwarded to the company's corporate DHCP servers. Since I do not have
> access to those DHCP servers and two DHCP servers on the same network does
> not work (sans proper VLANs) another solution needs to be developed; enter
> DHCPproxy and DNSmasq
>
> DNSmasq/DHCPproxy will only respond to DHCP packets from configured MAC
> address.
>
> I cannot remember off the top of my head what version but DHCPproxy is
> built into newer versions of dhcpd, and dnsmasq is a completely separate
> utility. The version of dhcpd shipped with RHEL6 does not support
> dhcpproxy, and therefore dnsmasq is required. Ubuntu 1404 and RHEL7 do
> support native dhcpproxy via dhcpd.
>
> Once you have PXEboot configured, you will point the pxelinux.cfg files to
> the RHEL6 netboot images, the iso will be loaded, and install via your KS
> files.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP
>
> Good luck :)
>
> -Brandon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Robson
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:17 AM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP
>
> A popular tool for configuring and automating the installation of Red Hat
> is a tool called "cobbler".  See http://www.cobblerd.org/
>
> Good luck!
> -Steve
>
> kickstart-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> >     1. RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP (Frantisek Krecmer)
> >
> > Subject: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP
> > From: Frantisek Krecmer <f.krecmer at gmail.com>
> > Date: 12/11/2014 11:59 AM
> >
> > To: "kickstart-list at redhat.com" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have following scenario:
> > - need to install very large number of physical servers
> > - RHEL repository is on the network filer (url install, NFS install
> > available)
> > - there is no DHCP available (and it is not possible to have one -
> > long
> > story)
> > - I know serial number and IP for each server
>
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