<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 01:27 -0700, gKw-X wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hello, The school currently has a lab of computers booting to k12, an LAC room full of Macs, and various Windows machines scattered here and there. It would really turn some heads if I was able to have every machine in the school able to boot to either k12 or the local os, AND to have internet access in either case. The current setup has the firewall/internet server hooked into a switch, which goes to all the mac/windows machines and into the k12 server. Then the k12 server goes into a second switch, which connects to all the lab pcs. So there are two things I need to ask: 1) Do I need two DHCP servers? How can I do this without running into conflicts on either the k12 machines, or the local os machines? I tried just plugging everything into one switch and suddenly half the k12 machines stopped booting (I assume because they were talking to the wrong DHCP server). </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> If you're running a dual-NIC K12LTSP setup (the default), then yes, you will need two DHCP servers, and you will need the LTSP clients on a different network segment. You can also use VLANs, if your switching architecture supports them, to accomplish the same thing. My setup at home is a little different. I run a single-NIC K12LTSP server and use its DHCP server to serve my whole LAN. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 2) Can Macs boot to k12? There are some notes here and there indicating that maybe they can. How does this work? Or am I completely clueless. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Yep. I do it with a Power Mac 5260, and others report that they've done it with other models as well. I've also, BTW, done it with Sun Ultra 5's. --TP </BODY> </HTML>