<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 3 Nov 2008, at 01:14, Jim Oring, Jr. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I'm in the process of experimemting with netbooting and am very <br>interested in what others are doing to make this a seemless process.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>One important thing to keep in mind is the steps you need to take if you are going to be NetBooting across subnets. Mike Bombich (as usual) has written the definitive descriptions of the whole NetBoot process, and things to watch out for):</div><div><br></div><div>Troubleshooting the NetBoot process: <<a href="http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html">http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html</a>></div><div>NetBooting across subnets: <<a href="http://www.bombich.com/mactips/nbas.html">http://www.bombich.com/mactips/nbas.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div>The key step is for whoever administers your network hardware to make sure that routers on any subnets that will have machines NetBooting can pass BSDP traffic. If this works then everything else follows pretty easily.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd also recommend looking into a good administrative method for managing which machines are allowed to NetBoot and which aren't. Apple's MAC address filtering is the right thing to do (imo) but the interface for managing MAC addresses in Server Admin is, well, a bit rubbish really. If you have a large number or a high turnover of machines allowed to NetBoot then it's really easy to lose control of the MAC address filter. </div><div><br></div><div>In general, though, I'd say read those two articles by Mike Bombich. I've never seen anything better for understanding the NetBoot process. 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