[K12OSN] DHCP on a non-standard port
cliebow at downeast.net
cliebow at downeast.net
Sat Oct 2 00:46:59 UTC 2004
with isa cards i had to pass option 128 and 9 to the terminals..didn't know
how..i know there is a feature in etherboot 5,2 that ignores queries
without a filename ...but i use trusty old 5.0.11 and independent dhcp with
no chance of interfering with nt dhcp..
chuck
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> Why does it need to listen on a nonstandard port?
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> On Oct 1, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Jay Pfaffman wrote:
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> > I'm in a university environment and would like to be able to run lab
> > machines as thin clients off my server. I know how to create a boot
> > image that'll boot from a non-standard port and can figure out how to
> > tell my machine to listen on one. What I don't understand is what to
> > do from there. Do I need to create entries for the machines? That
> > doesn't make sense because I can't know what address they'll get from
> > DHCP. Does my DHCP server relay the request somehow? Does the client
> > do two DHCP lookups, first from the university server and then, using
> > that IP request where to get its boot image from mine? I don't want
> > to have my DHCP server handing out bogus IPs on the university network
> > (done that before--it's not fun).
> > --
> > Jay Pfaffman <pfaffman at utk.edu>
> > Asst Professor of Instructional Technology, U. TN, Knoxville
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