On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:51:17PM +0930, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:02 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > Some stuff will fail without "next-server" as well. > > If you're not booting over ethernet, you won't need it. And, even then, > you may not need it. Taken from the dhcpd.conf man file from FC4, > below, the requirement may change depending on your circumstances, but > the purpose won't. > > The next-server statement > > next-server server-name; > > The next-server statement is used to specify the host address of the > server from which the initial boot file (specified in the filename > statement) is to be loaded. Server-name should be a numeric IP > address or a domain name. If no next-server parameter applies to a > given client, the DHCP server’s IP address is used. This changed in later versions, the next-server is no longer assumed to be the DHCP's server IP address, following the spec more closely. -- lfr 0/0
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