On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 20:40, Marc wrote: > Need help/suggesion/idea on the below implementation > of pxe n/w > > > o How to implement a PXE server failover I suspect a typical cluster setup with shared IP will do the job just fine; the pxe data you want to serve out is quite static I assume so keeping that in sync is just an rsync hourly cronjob ;) > o Can we have more than 1 pxe server in the network > by any means yes; dhcp/bootp controls which IP address the client will use > o Can we have pxe-request forwarding ( when the pxe > server in the current network is down ) that is harder, I suspect it's easier to do a shared-IP setup where the standby server takes over the original IP when the primary server goes down. (if you really want to you can also hack the DNS server to see which PXE servers are up and supply only those, but that would probably be quite a significant amount of work)
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