BOOTP and fai-install server on different machines

Andrew Pollock andrew-fai at andrew.net.au
Wed Jun 19 00:17:07 CEST 2002


On 19.06.2002 at 02:10:24, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hy,
> I want to try to start using FAI.
> 
> My Problem is, in all docs i have found, the FAI install Server is always
> BOOTP Server, too.
> 
> I would like to know if it is possible to run FAI on one system, but
> distribute Names and IP Adresses for the install clients from a dhcp server,
which
> is, in our case, Windows NT based.
> 
> I could install the FAI-Server as BOOTP Server in Addition, too, but for now
> i can't imagine how i can make sure that the NT DHCP Server and FAI install
> and BOOTP Server don't mess with each other.
> 
> Any guesses?

I believe you can run two DHCP servers on the same segment, I have. I had a
Windows based DHCP server serving the normal pool and a Linux DHCP server with
static leases in it (no pool). The two coexisted fine. I'm not sure if this was
more by good luck than good management though.

Andrew



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