Re: [K12OSN] Ver 2.0 issues

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Kris A. Wotipka wrote:

>Now I don't have anything to base this on however here it goes...
>
>It seems like there are a lot of "voodoo" issues with ver 2.0.  Most of them 
>seem to be in and around the "LogOn".  I think that something is going on 
>with the new dhcpd/tft system and either misrouted packets or the wrong 
>interface trying to answer broadcasts and creating confusion on the network.
>
>Adam and I have written some IPCHAINS and some routing info that are blocking 
>this sort of thing as Adam posted already.  I would like someone who really 
>knows the "in's and out's" of the boot process for the thin clients.  I would 
>bet that there is something going on there.
>
>Also, I am looking for some info (a flow chart maybe) that shows, step by 
>step, the linux boot process from power on to desktop.  Also, maybe the thin 
>client boot.  Any suggestions

In one of Adam's last posts, he mentioned:

> We had the 2 network cards plugged into two different switches, but we had 
> the switches connected together because we wanted to feed the ltsp terminals 
> to our network here in the library so we could pop a boot disk in any 
> computer and boot a terminal


In short, don't do that!

The whole point of having two nics is to isolate the teminals from the rest
of the network. If you want access the terminal server from anywhere on the
network, use only one nic and read up on the docs that Paul Nelson put
together for his one-nic setups:

	http://k12ltsp.org/install.html#single_card


-Eric