> 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
Depends exactly how you set it up. If you have it so that the LTSP server
is multihomed and serving DHCP to only the interface(s) with the workstations
on there is no way it can possibly conflict. (Indeed in such a setup the
workstations wouldn't even see the W2K machine without a relay agent running.)
> 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?
You will need the to make sure that the W2K DHCP server is setting
the following options for the LTSP clients.
next-server <ip of LTSP server>;
filename "/tftpboot/lts/boot/bootp/vmlinuz.all.bootp";
use-host-decl-names on;
If you just use whatever the W2K machine serves up by default
then it's unlikely to work at all.
You might also need to tweak the SERVER paramater in lts.conf
too.
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Mark Evans
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