Imported Debian patch 3.6-1

[debian/elilo] / docs / netbooting.txt

diff --git a/docs/netbooting.txt b/docs/netbooting.txt
index 2f517403d8cec548dd23fb7c3b9ead95a6610b63..130cc11691ba665f1110292338fba6e8f71a409e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/netbooting.txt
+++ b/docs/netbooting.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,21 @@ only on two very common cases:
 
           This filename is an opportunity to specify a machine specific configuration file.
 
-       2) elilo-ia32.config or elilo-ia64.conf
+       2) AA[BB[CC]][-ia32|ia64].conf 
+           As of version 3.5, elilo will also look for IPv4 class A,B,C
+           subnet-specific versions of the config file.  This is useful when you
+           want to have a common config file for all machines connected to a
+           particular subnet.
+           
+           For example, if your IP address is 10.0.0.1 (0A000001 in hex), elilo
+           will look first for 0A000001.conf, then 0A0000.conf, then 0A00.conf,
+           and finally 0A.conf.
+
+           Elilo will also try architecture-specific versions of subnet-specific
+           config files first (So for example, on an Itanium system,
+           "0A0000-ia64.conf" will be tried before "0A0000.conf")
+
+       3) elilo-ia32.config or elilo-ia64.conf
           
           Depending on the machine (client side) architecture elilo will try the IA-32 or
           IA-64 file.
@@ -135,7 +149,7 @@ only on two very common cases:
           This distinction between the architectures is useful when the same TFTP server services
           the two types of clients : IA32- and IA-64 machines.
 
-        3) elilo.conf
+        4) elilo.conf
 
   All files use the same format. Elilo will stop at the first match. In case no file is found,
   it will try to download a default kernel file name (vmlinux).