Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 05 Nov 2006, Daniel J. Summers wrote: > > >>> 2/ In my AMD I have only one network card. Edubuntu 6.10 claims to run >>> Out-of-the-box on a server with two cards. Is this mandatory ? I don't >>> want to add a card in my AMD if not needed. >>> >>> >> I believe that it is required. The problem comes in with DHCP - your >> Linksys router likely provides a DHCP server, and your AMD box gets its >> IP address from that router. To boot, the LTSP clients need to obtain a >> DHCP lease from the LTSP box - in your current configuration, though, >> they would get their address from the wireless router. Also, your AMD >> box cannot be a DHCP server and a DHCP client across the same physical >> connection. With two network cards, one is the server interface (to >> handle connections to the thin clients), and one is a client interface >> (allowing access to the Internet connection for all connected devices). >> > > You can certainly run with a single network card (dealing with two network > cards is a recently added feature not a requirement). However, the above > DHCP problem can be solved by simply disabling the dhcp server on the > router -- which is fairly simple to do. I'd suggest setting it a static ip > of 192.168.0.1 and letting your other machines inhabit the remaining space. > > This is exactly what our network does. > So the wireless router becomes 192.168.0.1, and you tell the Edubuntu server (ES) to use that as the gateway? Interesting... Would the wireless connections still work - i.e., they'll connect through the router, but get their Internet access through the server (which would make the ES a proxy server)? Or, does the DHCP server on the ES tell them to go straight to 192.168.0.1 for Internet stuff? I'd really be interested in this setup for my house - we're going to start home-schooling in the near future, and I'd like to have ES running to take advantage of it's features. :) I still have a switch on order for the school I'm setting up, because they only have 3 ports in their wireless router, and they're all full.
I'd really be interested in that proxy server setup for the school I'm setting up, though - I'm sure they don't want wide-open Internet access in their classrooms. (And, I understand that with thin clients, most of those restrictions would be placed on the user.) > One solution to this as Dan described is to plug the thin client network > card into a wireless access point -- so the link is over wireless but you > still have a PXE capable network card. > That's not quite what I was suggesting - but that's an interesting way to do it that I hadn't thought of. :) Thanks for that! Daniel -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
