gutsy and regular PCs on edubuntu lan

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Fri, 02 Nov 2007, Denis Melnikov wrote:

> > Ok, perhaps this is more of a ISC DHCP question, but I now have two
> > NICs in the LTSP server and it's running DHCPD.  There's another DHCPD
> > server on the same LAN and it seems to not be a problem.
> 
> as I understand your LTSP's dhcpd is listening to 192.168.0.0/24
> subnet, while another DHCPD to 192.168.1.0/24 one. If so you don't
> need to define the 2nd subnet at your 1st dhcpd and vice versa.
> This will work provided the servers placed in corresponding
> subnets. Else you will need dhcp-relay at your router.

Suppose you have two dhcp servers on one physical network.

A thin client boots.  Not knowing anything about its network information,
it sends a broadcast message to 255.255.255.255 (ie everyone) requesting
DHCP.

Which server will respond?

Gavin