> This is a common setup. My suggested approach is to always use DHCP, > and set DHCP reservations on your DHCP server to consistently assign > the same IP to the same client's MAC address. That way, you can assign > the IP and hostname in your local DNS or /etc/hosts or NIS hosts table > or whatever, and get it set consistently. This wouldn't be an issue if our network was built out with static DHCP in mind. We have over 1000 servers that already have manually assigned static IP addresses. The switch to static DHCP would be way too huge of an effort for a simple problem like this > > url --url=http://mirror.nexcess.net/CentOS/5.5/os/x86_64/ > > If you're going to be doing this a lot, set up a local CentOS mirror > and take most of the load off the external servers. It's a lot of > bandwidth to be eating all the time for rebuilds. This IS a local mirror. > You can set up the eth0/eth1/etc. ports entirely from the output of > "/sbin/ifconfig". If folks like, I'll try to dig up my tools. Could you, it might be helpful to me :) Thanks, Daniel Theisen <dtheisen at nexcess.net>