dhcpd setting for booting clients from a 4.2 server and a 5 server

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Wed May 9 19:11:43 BST 2007


On Thu, 10 May 2007, Krsnendu dasa wrote:

> On 09/05/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We added a stanza for each host looking something like this:
> >
> >   host p8-04 {
> >     hardware ethernet 00:0E:2E:75:A2:90;
> >     fixed-address p8-04.mt;
> This looks like ipv6 address. does it matter that the other ip
> addresses in the dhcpd file use the older 192168.0.xxx style
> addressing?

The p8-04.mt is a name (corresponding to our dns entries), sorry.  You can
just as easily put in a 192.168 address.  Obviously the 00:0E:2E:75:A2:90
is the network card mac address.

> I am using smbldap. I will try installing on Edubuntu and see how it
> goes runnning in parallel with K12LTSP.

Fair enough, you've already have that sorted then.  BTW your users need to
be in the "fuse" group to use USB keys.

Gavin




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