[K12OSN] multiple LTSP servers on the same network using XDMCP chooser

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Sat Nov 13 04:06:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 21:22, Shawn Powers wrote:

> I've heard a lot of talk about XDMCP choosers, but my solution (over 
> Christmas break) is going to be a round-robin DNS entry for the servers. 
>   In the dhcpd.conf file, I'll point the clients to a dns name instead 
> of an IP address, and split the load.

It should work to simply give each DHCP server a smaller non-overlapping
range, each pointing to itself as the boot server.   The clients should
connect to whichever one answers first and the servers would stop
answering when they run out of addresses.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com





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