[K12OSN] Tossing around an idea...need some input

[David Trask]

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 9:36 PM +0000 wrote:
>Yes:
>
>include "filename";
>will do what you expect.
>More than you want to know is at: http://www.bind9.net/manuals-dhcp
>Note that the involved process for dhcp failover is only for the
>case where you need overlapping dynamic ranges - and it is partly
>designed to keep giving the same IP address to the same requester
>even if one of the dhcp servers goes down.  In the multi-ltsp server
>case that really doesn't matter and you really don't want the rest
>of the dhcp-provided info to be the same because you need to send
>them to a new serv

this idea works except it's possible for one machine to be faster than the
other, thus getting all the glory...isn't it?  Hence the load balance
never happens when it comes to terminals.  OR  if you did a small range
of, say, 30 addresses on one server.....it's entirely possible for
standalone workstations (windows machines, ugh) to take up all 30 of those
addresses....thus the terminal server never even gets used....right?

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100