[Maas-devel] IP address reservation API

[Julian Edwards]

On 01/07/14 09:21, Dann Frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Julian Edwards
> <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 25/06/14 23:25, Dann Frazier wrote:
>>> It might be nice to also have a "blacklist MAC" setting, where you can
>>> tell DHCP to provide no response to a host. I use this in my lab
>>> sometimes where I have another DHCP server that responds to only
>>> whitelisted MAC addresses when testing MAAS/preparing demos. Similar
>>> to user reservation below, but for MACs instead of IPs.
>>
>> Hi Dann,
>>
>> I'd like to understand why you need two DHCP servers on the network.
>> What is it about the one that MAAS runs that needs you to do this?
> 
> We have a site DHCP server that manages the subnet - it is not a MAAS
> server. I can't change that - but I can blacklist MACs in that server
> config. When testing MAAS, I want it to know about a handful of hosts
> that I've chosen to test, so I blacklist those in the site config and
> whitelist those in my MAAS DHCP server config.
> 

Ok this is an entirely new use case - can you file a bug about it please!

Thanks
J