Administrator Guide

40 | Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) - Config
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MAC-Based Configuration
To configure the DHCP server to assign a fixed IP address, Dell Networking OS
image, and configuration file based on the system’s MAC address, use the BMP
mode.
Using BMP, the same IP address is assigned to the system even on repetitive reloads
and the same configuration file is retrieved when using the DNS server or the
network-config file to determine the hostname.
The assigned IP address is only used to retrieve the files from the file server. It is
discarded after the files are retrieved.
Following is a configuration example of DHCP server included on the most popular
Linux distribution. The dhcpd.conf file shows the MAC-based IP and configuration
file assignment are fixed.
Table 3-1. MAC-Based Configuration
MAC-Based IP Address Assignment
To assign a fixed IP address and configuration file based on the system’s MAC
address, configure the DHCP server to deploy in BMP mode. In this way, the same IP
address is assigned and the same configuration file is retrieved when the switch
reloads.
Using a dynamic IP address assignment may cause the desired configuration to not
load on the system because the IP address changes each time the system is reloaded.
Parameter Example
option configfile code 209=text;
option bootfile-name code 67=text;
host HOST1{
#####MAC to IP mapping
hardware ethernet 00:01:e8:8c:4d:0e;
fixed-address 30.0.0.20;
#####Config file name could be given in the following way
option configfile “ftp://admin:admin@30.0.0.1/
pt-s4810-12”;
option configfile “http://Guest-1/pt-s4810-12”;
option configfile “pt-s4810-12”;
FTP URL with IP address
HTTP URL with DNS
TFTP
#####bootfile-name could be given in the following way
option bootfile-name “ftp://
admin:admin@Guest-1/Dell-SE-8.3.10.1.bin”;
option bootfile-name “http://30.0.0.1/
Dell-SE-8.3.10.1.bin”;
FTP URL with DNS
HTTP URL with IP address
TFTP URL with IP address