seems like the disconnect is between maas’s requirements for defining power control parameters and its ability to assign ips. if you have the bmc set to get a dhcp address, and maas is configured to hand out leases on that subnet/vlan, it will work, right — the bmc gets an address? but then the issue is that maas expects to know both the ip and mac of the bmc for power control. if maas could instead look up the mac or use a name instead of ip, even if the name is autogenerated, would that solve the problem?
it feels like this should be possible, but the issue isn’t with dhcpd.
does everyone just manually manage bmc addresses? we do, but it feels bad.