Setting up DHCP for the LWP
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Setting up DHCP for the LWP

Jurjen Bokma

December 2009

To install the RuG LWP (Linux Workplace), you need a DHCP server, and it had better be the ISC DHCP server, or you're on your own from here.

  1. Global options

    In the global section of your dhcpd.conf, put the following (maybe a subset will suffice, I didn't try): 

    # Declare options needed for PXELinux
option space pxelinux;
option pxelinux.magic      code 208 = string;
option pxelinux.configfile code 209 = text;
option pxelinux.pathprefix code 210 = text;
option pxelinux.reboottime code 211 = unsigned integer 32;

#
# gPXE-specific encapsulated options
#
option space gpxe;
option gpxe-encap-opts code 175 = encapsulate gpxe;
option gpxe.priority code 1 = signed integer 8;
option gpxe.keep-san code 8 = unsigned integer 8;
option gpxe.no-pxedhcp code 176 = unsigned integer 8;
option gpxe.bus-id code 177 = string;
option gpxe.bios-drive code 189 = unsigned integer 8;
option gpxe.username code 190 = string;
option gpxe.password code 191 = string;
option gpxe.reverse-username code 192 = string;
option gpxe.reverse-password code 193 = string;
option gpxe.version code 235 = string;
# Other options that may be useful
#
option iscsi-initiator-iqn code 203 = string;

  2. The UWP/LWP group

    Inside a shared network, subnet or group in dhcpd.conf, put a snippet: 

    option pxelinux.pathprefix "/tftpboot/";
if exists dhcp-parameter-request-list { option dhcp-parameter-request-list =  concat( option dhcp-parameter-request-list,d0,d1,d2,d3); }
option pxelinux.reboottime 30;
option pxelinux.configfile "configs/lwppxe";
option pxelinux.magic f1:00:74:7e;
site-option-space "pxelinux";
filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
next-server 129.125.1.1; 1

    1

    The IP of the TFTP server is hidden. You may call or mail for the right number.

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