LTSP server crash

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi!

On 11/04/2012 13:48, dbclinton wrote:
> I messed my device names up and managed to lose my thin clients in the
> process. I'm running 10.04 LTS, by the way.
> Originally the device facing the Internet (via an Ipcop proxy server)
> was eth0 and the device facing my clients was eth1. The Internet
> interface is currently eth1 and, to make room for it, I've shifted the
> clients to eth2 (by editing /etc/network/interfaces). I updated my ssh
> image and keys, but the clients are still not making any contact (i.e.,
> they're not booting).
> Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file:
> ===================
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth2
> iface eth2 inet static
> 	address 192.168.0.254
> 	netmask 255.255.255.0
> ===================
> And here's the output from ifconfig:
> ===================
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:a1:b0:00:5b:ce
>            inet addr:192.168.1.24  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::2a1:b0ff:fe00:5bce/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:99 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:23353 (23.3 KB)  TX bytes:17016 (17.0 KB)
>            Interrupt:23 Base address:0xb400
>
> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:60:0b:41:e5
>            inet addr:192.168.0.254  Bcast:192.168.0.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>            Interrupt:28 Base address:0x2000
>
> eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:87:11:0a:03:31
>            inet6 addr: fe80::287:11ff:fe0a:331/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:2950 (2.9 KB)  TX bytes:3546 (3.5 KB)
>            Interrupt:22 Base address:0xec00
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:58280 (58.2 KB)  TX bytes:58280 (58.2 KB)
>
> ===================
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

Sounds more like a problem with dhcp configuration, you might have an 
interface listed in /etc/default/dhcp3-server that's still set to your 
old one. Otherwise, check /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf (if you installed using 
ltsp-server) or /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf (with ltsp-server-standalone).

-Jonathan