Quote Originally Posted by RockMumbles
I have problems at school which I attribute to our win2k dhcp server, with both remote-X logins and PXE booting. In our teaching computer lab (about 25 machines) where we have a single network connection to the entire lab, I would put a linux firewall (freesco) between the lan connection and our main switch, freesco would then be the dhcp server for the lab, and both linux and windows would be able to work. At home behind a freesco firewall as the dhcp server, I've had no problems running clusterknoppix and PXE booting or with remote-X logins, but at school I can't get the PXE boot disks to work at all, and the remote-X logins are sporadic, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
~rock
Rock, I don't think this is off topic at all. I couldn't set-up PXE in my lab of 25 PCs at my school due to, I am assuming, a dhcp conflict. I thought that I could still use X -query instead, I guess not! OK, I'm going to have to set-up a firewall as you did. Will this adversely affect other classes using that lab in wimpdoze? Are there any dox you could recommend for me to try this out?

BTW, are you a teacher using knoppix in class too? Just curious.

In answer to your other question, my school went whole-hog into WIMxP over the summer. So I suppose they use a WIMxP DHCP server. I'm not sure as the tech guys over at my school already think I'm "that Linux nut." So I leave their wimpdoze partitions alone and they leave my knoppix partitions alone....

TIA,