15 Sep
2000
15 Sep
'00
11:28 a.m.
Bruce Sterling Woodcock wrote:
However, in case you misunderstood, what was being talked about was the filer itself being able to TFTP boot from OS files from elsewhere on the network. (Although, who's to say that couldn't be another filer? That way you kill two birds with one stone.)
I understood and agree with the original RFE but doing it both ways round would be extremely neat and elegant. A cluster could even do resiliant dhcpd which is a pain to do conventionally[*].
Chris
[*] You either have to hand out addresses from diffenent ranges or have one machine as a standby and hack up a mechanism for detecting that the primary has fallen over.
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