Ltsp (dhcp)

[jeisma]

Hello!

MDK9.0

Im in the process of configuring LTSP. Looking at the example provided by LTSP initialize on configuring DHCP, it says i have to manually add all workstations in the conf file. It would be awfully painful if I have 100 workstations. Is there a shorter way of doing that?

What is the purpose of the lease time if im giving a fixed address?

Thanks!

[JohnT]

Now move down to the ws001 entry. You need to change the hardware ethernet to the mac adress of the network card you will use on the workstation. You see the mac adress on the workstation screen if you boot up with the bootdisk we made earlier. It says Ethernet adress, and is followed by something like "00:E0:06:E8:00:84". Change the ip of ws001 (the workstation number one) to an unused IP for your LAN. For the purposes of this HOWTO, we'll use 192.168.0.42. Save it as dhcpd.conf and exit. This preserves the original dhcpd.conf.example in case you ever want to look at the original again. I don't know of another method to use on a diskless workstation. You do need the address to be able to assign an IP.