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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: RE: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| This is what i have been able to conjure up, i have appended this to my menu file and seems to be doing the job. I have not used iseq here.
:retry_dhcp
dhcp net0 && echo IP address: ${net... |
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oblivionv |
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2014-01-19, 10:10 |
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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: RE: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| It is very unlikely that 2 hosts (we have close to 60 machines in the VLAN)
were to assume the same IP from among the 65024(minus a few) possible IP's for the duration of ipxe chain-loading the file (... |
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2014-01-16, 18:04 |
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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: RE: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| It is very unlikely that 2 clients assume the same address with randomization if we were to use a class B address for example. I agree that conflicting configurations from the DHCP server is not a san... |
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2014-01-16, 07:40 |
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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: RE: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| Well, thanks for your advice. But, there is no need to fix the network. There are reasons why we have multiple DHCP servers running. Changing the entire network infrastructure for a service isnt a cle... |
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2014-01-13, 18:58 |
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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: RE: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| (2014-01-10 23:34)mcb30 Wrote: (2014-01-09 16:26)oblivionv Wrote: Is there a way to generate random numbers on the ipxe shell, like how we would using a bash/korn shell? Does it require ... |
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2014-01-11, 05:03 |
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Thread: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
Post: Generate random numbers on ipxe shell??
| Is there a way to generate random numbers on the ipxe shell, like how we would using a bash/korn shell? Does it require re-compiling the source?
Something like the following is what am looking for:
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oblivionv |
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2014-01-09, 16:26 |
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Thread: ipxe wimboot RAM payload issue (512 MB)
Post: RE: ipxe wimboot RAM payload issue (512 MB)
| (2014-01-08 08:31)robinsmidsrod Wrote: Well, the RAM disk needs to be somewhere, and that quote can be misinterpreted. What it means is that the memory required for the RAM disk is used only on... |
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2014-01-08, 10:48 |
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Thread: ipxe wimboot RAM payload issue (512 MB)
Post: ipxe wimboot RAM payload issue (512 MB)
| Hi friends,
I have an existing pxelinux infrastructure in place. I have been using gpxelinux.0 with memdisk to boot winpe 3.0 images into memory to start windows installations. I heard... |
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