> Has any work been done on using LTSP over the Internet to boot > workstations?
I am quite sure it's a bad idea to run ltsp over networks you are not in control of. Security, evtl. plain transmissions etc.... You could encrypt much, but not all (dhcp!) and remember there could be man-in-the-middle attacks at least at booting, showing the users a login screen similar to yours and getting their passwords. Btw, dhcp probably won't work over the internet. > 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? That's quite another question. You could e.g. place the server where the X-apps run in NY and your clients in LA... If you encrypt carefully or tunnel the packets somehow. The problem is the beginning of the boot process: In every broadcast entity, there must be some process listening for DHCP-requests, so that clients can obtain their adress. I suppose you could live without tftp-server in every broadcast domain if you supply "routers" inside your dhcp.conf, but don't ask me if that is implemented in etherboot, ask Ken or Marty, they will know better. Read documentation about DHCP-relays, which could also do. In general, there should be no problem having subnets, e.g. 10.0.0.0/24 to 10.255.255.0/24 running ltsp clients as long as in every hardware subnet (or where broadcasts go - routers don't forward them, do they?) there is a dhcp relay, perhaps you even find a router capable of doing that. Or use 486++ as routers, small linux should suffice, could even be netbooted, too! > Matthew Anselm _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
