Hi
> After reading it over, though, I'm not sure that it's the best/most
> efficient way of making PXE clients work with LTSP? What I mean is, it
> looks like the author patched something together that works by using PXE to
> load up and launch etherboot code. That, in turn, connects to the LTSP
> server using the more conventional, non-PXE method. I don't see why I can't
> just boot directly from PXE protocol and skip the step of loading etherboot
> code?
This way works, is FAST and EASY.
> No, I fully understand that either Windows 2000 or Linux DHCP server can
> issue either dynamic or static IP addresses. The only reason I'm interested
> in issuing dynamic IPs to the LTSP clients is for ease of administration. I
> don't like having to manually set up a MAC address to IP address
> relationship in a config file on the LTSP server for each one of the clients
> I set up. (Not only that, but if someone moves a client from one location
Tricky!!
As soon as you need special (pre-2.09) network card info, special video
(even in 2.09, my i810 is a case in point) info then Named workstations
are a BIG help (ie ws013 = IP = MAC)
> to another, I don't want to have to update its IP information so it's on the
> proper subnet for its new location.)
> As for flashing etherboot into ROM on as many clients as possible, I can see
> why that might generally be a good idea - but probably not in my particular
> case. The machines I'm trying to use with LTSP are "Netier XL2000"
> thin-clients. They originally came configured with embedded NT 4.0 on a
> flash-disk chip. They have integrated 10/100 ethernet (Realtek 8139) and
> supposedly come with a pretty complete PXE implementation for those who want
> to bypass the flash disk and remote boot them from a server. (Our
> motivation for bypassing embedded NT is two-fold. #1, the commercial
> "Rapport" software designed to manage the thin clients is expensive. #2,
> embedded NT takes an awful long time to boot up - and it seems like overkill
> when all we want to do is launch a Citrix ICA client afterwards.)
Or use the flash-disk chip to boot Etherboot
James
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