Select Configure Booting IP Addresses Now from the Server Setup: IP Addresses dialog box
(Figure 10 (page 33)), then click Next to proceed to the Configure Booting IP Addresses dialog box shown in Figure 11 (page 34).
Figure 11 Configure booting IP addresses
Use the Configure Booting IP Addresses dialog box to register client IP addresses with their physical MAC addresses. The IP addresses and corresponding reserved MAC addresses are read from the /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab file on the server to display in the Booting IP Addresses window. IP addresses with blank reserved MAC addresses are not currently reserved for any client.
If you want to add a new IP address to reserve for a client, click in the IP text box and enter the IP address intended for your client. Then click in the reserved for: 0x text box and enter the client’s MAC address. Click Add to enter the IP address/MAC address pair into the Booting IP Addresses window. The MAC address given here must be the MAC address of the network interface to be used to boot the system over the network.
If the IP address you want to reserve for a client is already listed in the Booting IP Addresses window, select that line. The IP address will appear in the IP text box, and the current MAC address it is reserved for, if there is one, will appear in the reserved for: 0x box. Enter the client MAC address in the reserved for: 0x box, then click Modify. The IP address will then appear in the Booting IP Addresses window with the client MAC you just entered.
You can remove sets of IP addresses/MACs from the Booting IP Addresses window by selecting the line and then clicking Remove.
Continue assigning IP addresses to clients’ MACs until all the clients to be booted from the
When you have completed registering clients, click OK to write the contents of the Booting IP Addresses window to the /etc/opt/ignite/instl_boottab file.
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