DHCP and our hosts

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:01 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Mike McGrath wrote:
> > At present our physical hosts use DHCP and our Xen guests do not.  I'd 
> > like to do one or the other.  The only issue we have going completely 
> > DHCP is that hosts like the proxy boxes require some aliased 
> > interfaces[1] which isn't really a problem but it's a minor 
> > inconvenience if someone is looking through the dhcpd.conf file for 
> > free IP's.
> >
> > Option 1:
> > Completely Static IP's, everywhere.  (Except for some network devices?)
> >
> > Option 2:
> > Completely DHCP IP's, except for aliases or devices unable to use DHCP
> One side note about option 2, a more robust DHCP environment also allows 
> for very useful pxe boot.
> 

what we've done here is:

dhcp to boot/pxe
and then we convert the dhcp info in %post of the kickstart to
static-info and drop it in the network config

so we don't have to rely on dhcp for everything and have a spof on the
dhcp server, but we can also use pxe/dhcp sensibly.

-sv