On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:15 AM, David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com> wrote: > why not just continue to get dhcp addresses from the main dhcp machine, but > set the nbdroot=your.ltsp.server:port in the pxe.linux.cfg/default file. >
David, Two questions: 1) I presume I continue to run dhcpd. What do I need to do in its conf to serve clients a LTSP image via pxeboot, but ask it to get its own dhcp IP from campus? 2) How do I prevent others from getting dhcp IPs from my dhcp server? Sameer > I do this when u cant control the dhcp server, and it works ok... the only > issue might be DNS, but in theory, if the XP machines are getting DNS via > dhcp, u should be able to as well. > > kind regards, > David Van Assche > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> So, our campus IP folks came by over the Spring break and "upgraded" >> our network and broke the LTSP lab setup completely. We cannot run our >> own DHCP server and serve private IPs anymore. Each client, which is a >> full XP machine is connected to the campus network and must get its IP >> from the campus DHCP server (totally off limits for us). >> >> So, we are going to switch over to proxy DHCP using dnsmasq. >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP >> >> The lab has 33 machines connected to a switch. The LTSP server >> (eth0=public IP) is also connected to this switch. How do I restrict >> pxeboot of the 33 machines from LTSP and not to everyone else in the >> bldg? Note that as per the instructions at >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP we've removed >> dhcp and installed dnsmasq. We have a list of MAC addresses for all 33 >> machines. Where do these get specified? >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> I've looked into the dhcp-ignore=#known option, but no luck as yet. Is >> anybody using dnsmasq? >> >> cheers, >> Sameer >> >> -- >> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor, Information Systems >> Director, Campus Business Solutions >> San Francisco State University >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ >> http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ >> http://is.sfsu.edu/ >> >> -- >> edubuntu-devel mailing list >> edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
