Re: [K12OSN] Server and Clients mismatch

[Andy Rabagliati <andyr wizzy com>]

> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 07:24, Angelo Nera wrote:
> > Dear Friends,
> > 
> > Please, read the following story.

[ ... ]

> > HERE IS THE QUESTION:
> > can somebody tell me how to ' force ' Clients located in Lab B to connect 
> > to Server located in the same room ?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot !

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, pnelson replied:

> It sounds like you are not using the dual NIC setup for k12ltsp.
> 
> eth0 should be connected to a hub/switch for the clients and eth1 should
> connect to the Internet. This way you can have as many servers as you
> want. Each will boot only clients connected via the hub on eth0.
> 
> ;-) Paul


[ Thank you for a clear description of the problem, your (obviously researched)
  request. We wish everyone did that.-]

Pauls solution is a good one, but requires two switches/hubs (switches please :-).

I like to have one DHCP, TFTP, LDAP server, and multiple application servers.

The -query option to X I change to -indirect, in the LTSP startup scripts.

Then you can choose the host machine - put the load on the users :-)

It also adds a little redundancy to the system - especially if you
mount home directories via NFS.

Or you could customise lts.conf with the MAC address of all the clients to
indicate their XSERVER.

Cheers,   Andy!

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