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[Sergio Dicandia]

OK, now I installed DNSMasq and disabled dhcp3 on the server.
I edited the .conf file to reflect my needs in terms of IP range and the like; service seems to be up, I can monitor the requests with tcpdump (I'll post the previous results asap), but thin clients don't boot. Is there anything I should add/edit in dnsmasq.conf to have the clients boot from the server ?
dhcpd had a couple of lines about pxe, but I'm not sure how to manage this with dnsmasq.

Thanks in advance for your help with this ...

Sergio


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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:15:04 +0000
From: Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: your mail
To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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Hi,

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Sergio Dicandia wrote:

> Now I'm thinking to replace the DHCP server, but I need something on the
> server itself, or on a device (the router, maybe) since I cannot ask the
> teacher to:
>
> 1- start a service machine (acting as a DHCP server)
> 2 - wait until it's up&running
> 3 - start the server
> 4 - start the TCs
> 
> Way too tricky for people used to switch on a general button and have all the PCs running (OK, WindowsME, but)
> What about a router ? I also need to assign fixed IPs to specific MAC adddresses to be able to use iTalc ...

Without looking in detail (yet) at your tcpdump, what I'd suggest is trying
to install one of the alternative dhcp servers on your ltsp server.  The
options I know of are udhcpd or dnsmasq.  I'm not certain of the config
details with those though.

The main reason for this is simply to be able to say "there _must_ be
something amiss in dhcpd".  Also, it will solve all your other issues
above in terms of not requiring users to do anything different.

Gavin


      
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