This is less a problem, and more of a suggestion for an improvement. I've created a kickstart script that makes use of DHCP to assign the IP and next server information to the computer being loaded. I need a nice consistant way to get the computer's NIC hardware address. I see that pump prints out a message "sending dhcp request through device XXXX" to the F3 window, and the F4 window sometimes contains the hardware address (3com cards at least). What I want to suggest is the following: Can pump read and then output the Hardware Address from the NIC to the F3 log window? This would allow the hardware address to show up in a consistant location. I've not been able to discover what is causing the hardware address to show up in the F4 window and this causes me to worry that it will not be there for all NIC cards. Please let me know what you think of the idea. Thanks.
It will be on VC4 for all NIC cards. It's part of pump's internal logging (which goes through syslog)