gutsy and regular PCs on edubuntu lan

Denis Melnikov dmelnik at regent.ru
Fri Nov 2 14:08:27 GMT 2007


> > 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?

What is a topology of our network? Where are DHCP servers placed?
What does 'one physical network' mean?

Denis

> Gavin




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