booting up/installing linux...

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:36:43AM -0800, bruce wrote:
> i was assuming that there needs to be a way of configuring the box, to only
> allow the OS to be installed from a certain IP/range of IP addresses.

This is done in the DHCP server - it's obviously not an IP check since
IP isn't up yet, but it's done via MAC address.  If the MAC address
isn't in your DHCP tables, not much will happen with a PXE boot.

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