Matthew,
You'll have several problems.
1) dhcp works by sending a broadcast. That won't work over the
internet. You'd have to have a dhcp proxy to forward the
dhcp requests. Can be done, but just know that you need
to have that proxy.
2) tftp. Based on udp. Can work over a WAN, but it will be slow.
3) NFS. The root filesystem is mounted via NFS. NFS packets are
8192 bytes. Your MTU for your WAN will be 1500 or lower, resulting
in fragmented NFS packets. They get fragmented anyway, even on
a LAN, but you'll likely have fragment reassembly timeouts. That's
what I saw when I tried it.
I suggest having a local ltsp bootserver. It doesn't have to
be big, and it can also be used as a workstation. I would think
of this as a Master workstation, where all the others are slaves.
Jim McQuillan
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, mslicker wrote:
>
> Question:
>
> Has any work been done on using LTSP over the Internet to boot
> workstations?
>
> What I am really asking is can LTSP work in an enterprise environment
> rather than just workgroups (subnets). Can I have a central server room
> that boots diskless workstations on many different subnets within a large
> organization?
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
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