>The idea of making Etherboot only listen to certain servers might work
>in
>some situations, but what happens when you put a linux server in for
>that
>dhcp server, and all of a sudden all of the other clients on the network
>start getting IP addresses (or rejections) from that new server. You've
>just broken a network that was working.
Mmmm, faulty base assumption. With vendor-client-identifier ISC DHCP 3.0
can not only accept selected clients, i.e. Etherboot, but also ignore
other clients, i.e. Windoze workstations. So you should be able add such
a server to a network and not affect existing clients.
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