[K12OSN] Dhcp and iMac clients

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

You can do that.  I've done it here at home with a PMac 5260 and an iMac
Orange (Tangerine?).  All you have to do is ensure that the proper
DHCP-fu ends up in your existing DHCP server.  If your existing DHCP
server is the standard ISC DHCPD, then just copy the DHCP info from
K12LTSP's /etc/dhcpd.conf into your existing one.

If it's not ISC DHCPD, though, then it very likely does not support
multiple CPU types for thin clients, so you'll have to configure it for
x86 thin clients OR Mac clients, i. e., not both.  So, you get to choose
a thin client architecture...or you get to do VLANs.  Personally, I
don't know what your objection to VLANs is, as that really is how you
should be doing this.

Yes, you can do DHCP on different ports, and Chuck Liebow has indicated
previously in the list how to do it.  It's in the K12OSN archives. 
Power Macs use neither EtherBoot nor PXE, so you needn't worry about
that (they're more like Sun boxes that way).  But I'd do DHCP on
nonstandard ports only if I had no other choice.

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Jamie Lists wrote:
> We'd like to do a 1 nic setup for our k12ltsp box and not mess with
> any vlan stuff.
> We have an existing dhcp server but i'd really rather not have to hard
> code each client into the existing dhcp server.
>
> So now that i've told you what i don't want to do.. heres what we want to do ;)
>
> We have a bunch of old iMacs in classrooms. We're planning on
> disconnection the power to the hard drives and using them as thin
> clients for K12ltsp.
>
> We can set the open firmware on each machine to point which k12ltsp
> server to boot from.
>
> So my concern is DHCP. on the ltsp box should i be running a dhcp
> server on another port? I've seen that documentation, but i've also
> seen people note it only works with etherboot and not PXEboot.. but
> where does that leave the macs?
>
> Is their something in OpenFirmware i can configure to get this working?
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
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