Can you have Multiple RIS Servers?

[Jason Oliver]

We are in the process of moving to the RIS environment
from Windows 2003, from a Windows 2000 version, and we
are wondering if there are any issues with having 2 RIS
servers in the same environment (IE Broadcasting on the
same segment)? We want to investigate the posibilities
before we approach our network staff for this addition.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Jason

I dont think you can have more than one on the same
subnet. But on a different subnet is fine. What you could
do however is a little bit of trickery and have a dhcp
relay agent on each subnet pointing to different RIS
servers (after all PXE requests are handled by DHCP and
DNS)

I think a better option might be to install novell
netware as it allows you to assign different images to
different ip's (come on microsoft, catch up :) as well as
having multiple RIS servers on any subnet.

>-----Original Message-----
>We are in the process of moving to the RIS environment
>from Windows 2003, from a Windows 2000 version, and we
>are wondering if there are any issues with having 2 RIS
>servers in the same environment (IE Broadcasting on the
>same segment)? We want to investigate the posibilities
>before we approach our network staff for this addition.
>
>Thanks in advance for the help!
>
>Jason
>.
>

[Sarah Tanembaum]

That's neat that NetWare can pick and choose what OS images base on IP
address.

But while we are on the subject, I thought that I saw an attribute in AD,
netboot-Locally-Installed-OSes,
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adschema/adschema/a_netbootanswerrequests.asp[/url],
that seems to indicate that it can put ANY OSes on the local machine. I'm
not really sure but perhaps some Windows 2003 and/or AD Guru can explain it
to us.

Thanks again.

Sarah

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> I dont think you can have more than one on the same
> subnet. But on a different subnet is fine. What you could
> do however is a little bit of trickery and have a dhcp
> relay agent on each subnet pointing to different RIS
> servers (after all PXE requests are handled by DHCP and
> DNS)
>
> I think a better option might be to install novell
> netware as it allows you to assign different images to
> different ip's (come on microsoft, catch up :) as well as
> having multiple RIS servers on any subnet.
>
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >We are in the process of moving to the RIS environment
> >from Windows 2003, from a Windows 2000 version, and we
> >are wondering if there are any issues with having 2 RIS
> >servers in the same environment (IE Broadcasting on the
> >same segment)? We want to investigate the posibilities
> >before we approach our network staff for this addition.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for the help!
> >
> >Jason
> >.
> >