On 5/11/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > (I'm concerned here about keeping the DHCP servers from colliding > > since the Wireless router also has a DHCP server. > > When looking at wireless options for my home LAN, I already had a router > doing DHCP so I decided to get a wireless brigde rather than an additional > router. Switching off DHCP on the bridge allowed wired and wireless > machines to share the same DHCP server.
Hi, Thanks for the response. I don't quite follow though. Help me a bit. It sounds like we've set up similar networks. Please excuse the text description but my ASCII art is worse: The first line is hard wired: Cable_Modem == Wireless router/switch == 3 machines + diskless frontends The next set is also hard wired: Wireless bridge == local switch == Myth-backend & diskless frontend In my case I want the Myth backend server to be the network server that all the diskless frontends get their kernels from, but the wireless router/switch has the existing DHCP server. I don't think I can have two DHCP servers on the network and expect things to work correctly. The Gentoo diskless HOWTO would tell me to make the Myth-backend machine the DHCP server. However it's not on all the time so my other machines wouldn't have addresses when they need to. Can I make the Wireless router be the DHCP server (it will give the diskless frontend machine addresses if they ask) and then still expect the diskless frontends to get their kernels from the Myth-backend machine? I don't understand the Etherboot/PXE boot process. Does the DHCP server HAVE to be the machine the diskless ones get their kernels from? I hope that's at least muddy clear instead of black as midnight unclear. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
