Running LTSP server over Amazon Cloud

[Scott Balneaves]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:37:59PM -0800, Stephen Zvolner wrote:
> the thin client must actually go out over the Internet to establish a connection and begin downloading the client software.  

This will be incredibly slow, if it's even possible.  The PXE that will come on
most modern network cards/motherboards is unmodifiable, and so won't do you any
good.  Your best bet will be to try to use either gPXE, or Etherboot, and
modify it's code so that instead of broadcasting for an available IP address,
you simply hard-code one in.

Please note that for EVERY thin client out there, you'll have to re-compile
gPXE/Etherboot for it, with a valid static IP address, since you don't want
DHCP.

My guess is this will be impractible.

Scott

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