[Maas-devel] IP address reservation API

[Dann Frazier]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Julian Edwards
<julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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!

LP: #1340347

> Thanks
> J