[mythtv-users] Questions on PXE booting a frontend

[Marc Tousignant]

From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Glen Dragon
Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 10:57 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Questions on PXE booting a frontend

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
On 08/01/2009 09:04 PM, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
coexist on the same network?  I would prefer the home router to handle
most DHCP requests and the Linux server to handle just the PXE-related
requests for this frontend, so that e.g. my wife doesn't lose DHCP for
her laptop computer when the Linux server is down.
2. Can the DHCP service in a home router and a Linux DHCP/PXE server
Having two DHCP servers on the same network is problematic, and most routers
don't have enough bits exposed to set up things like pxe booting. There may
be ways around it, but not any that I'm personally aware of.


For the DHCP server on the network, the best bet is if you can run a custom
firmware on your router.. I run Tomato on mine, and it works great with the
pxe configuration.

Prior to the router w/ tomato, I just ran dhcpcd on my myth server, and
disabled it on the router.  In a lot of cases that's more reliable than the
stock firmware implementation on the router.

You really cannot run two dhcp servers on the same network... bad stuff
happens.
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I'm running dd-wrt, same thing really pxe works fine here too.