You could use bootp instead of dhcp on the Linux server.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello. I just signed up for this mailing list last night, and I'm very
> interested in the LTSP project as a solution to getting more use out of some
> older PCs in my workplace.
>
> I have one question/issue, though, which I couldn't find any reference to.
> Our environment is currently Windows 2000 with some Windows NT 4.0
> workstations. A Windows 2000 server is set up to do DHCP for us. What I
> wanted to do was build a new box with RedHat 7.1 as the LTSP server, and
> then set up specific, older machines so they network boot from it into X and
> automatically launch the Citrix "Program Neighborhood" client for Linux.
> (This way, they're effectively turned into thin clients that can use our
> Citrix Metaframe server to work in a Windows 2000 environment.)
>
> It seems that if I build the RedHat LTSP server, it will conflict with our
> Windows 2000 DHCP server though, since both systems will be trying to issue
> IP addresses to any client that requests one. (It's not an option for me to
> turn off DHCP on the Windows 2000 box and let the Linux box do all of the
> DHCP work instead. Our server admin would not appreciate that, to say the
> least.)
>
> Is it feasible to shut off DHCP on the Linux box completely, and let the
> net-booting clients grab IP addresses from our 2000 DHCP server - or will
> this prevent them from properly starting the TFTP session and booting from
> the Linux box afterwards?
>
> Thanks!
> - Tom Wyrick
>
>
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