Dear LTSP Folks:
I recently discovered LSTP and am very excited about the possibilities
for use in our school. Our school has a pre-existent Linux network
(Mandrake 81) with one linux machine as the internet
firewall/web-filter/DHCP server and a second linux machine as the
NFS/NIS/SMB server. All works well. However, many of our older
machines are simply too slow to be useful on the network. I set up a
sample network using LTSP, and it works great! The Pentium 133 with 48
RAM suddenly runs right along at the speed of the Pentium 600 it is
connected to! Now I can use all those older "boat anchors".
However -- I need to integrate the LSTP server and workstations into the
larger system. If I simply connect the LSTP machines to one of our hubs,
I will have problems with conflicting DHCP servers. What I am
attempting to do now is install a second network card in the LSTP
server, and use that card to link to the internet firewall server. I
would use iptables to direct internet packets to the LTSP server (with a
static ip address). If this works, I must then solve the problem of NIS
and NFS. In the existing network, NIS handles the user logins, and NFS
is set up so that HOME directories are mounted on login. I assume that
I will set up the LSTP server to use NIS and NFS just like the other
existent workstations in the existent network. Presumably, the data
will automatically be transferred to the LTSP workstations.
Is there anything I am missing here? Anything such as domain names,
subnets? Do I use iptables to move info from one network card to the
other network card in the LTSP machine? Am I proceeding in the most
appropriate direction?
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
Robert
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