On 22/02/2017 10:37 πμ, Andreas-Christoph Bernstein wrote: > Interesting. That is new, right? I thought ltsp-pnp doesn't create a > chroot. That's why we are still using ltsp-server-standalone on our > ubuntu server. > > So nowadays i would start with ltsp-pnp? Is ltsp-server-standalone > obsolete (on ubuntu)?
ltsp-pnp has been around for more than 5 years and has been used in thousands of installations. If it suits your needs, you can surely use it. ltsp-build-client might be deprecated in ltsp6 in favor of other methods to build chroots, but for ltsp5 it's of course still supported. The ltsp-pnp wiki page does say that you need to install the ltsp-server-standalone package, so you have some misunderstanding there, let's try to clear it up. ltsp-server: an LTSP server where we don't want DHCPD (and possibly TFTPD) because we have those servers elsewhere in our LAN. ltsp-server-standalone: an LTSP server which will have DHCPD and TFTPD. Those are true for both classic ltsp and for ltsp-pnp. The difference is that: The ltsp-pnp wiki page suggests that you install ltsp-server-standalone with dnsmasq as the dhcpd and tftpd server. While in the classic ltsp, ltsp-server-standalone installed isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa. The reason that ltsp-pnp prefers dnsmasq instead of those 2 others, is because it can also function as "proxyDHCP", while isc-dhcp-server cannot do that. ProxyDHCP means: "I have a router that does DHCP in my network, so the LTSP server should only send the boot filename and root path, and let the router manage the IP leases". Since the "router is DHCPD" scenario is very very common, that's why ltsp-pnp preferred dnsmasq and ProxyDHCP. And it became the default in recent classic LTSP too, so new LTSP installations (2017+) will get dnsmasq by default instead of the other 2 servers. That means that the ltsp-pnp differences from the classic ltsp are now really really small; just running `ltsp-update-image -c /` instead of running `ltsp-build-client` for the default image. Btw, `ltsp-config dnsmasq` also sets up a classic DHCPD in the 192.168.67.x range, so if you want the old "dual nic" setup, you can just set the second nic to 192.168.67.1 and you're ready to go. To sum up: ltsp-server-standalone used to prefer to depend on isc-dhcp-server and tftpd-hpa, while now it prefers to depends on dnsmasq. If someone doesn't want dnsmasq, he can just install the 2 other ones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
