Ghost and VLAN's

JJJJNR

Hi, does anyone know how to ghost PCs on seperate Vlans.

Thanks

Biggins

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macrubicon

JJJJNR wrote: »

Hi, does anyone know how to ghost PCs on seperate Vlans.

Thanks

You will need to do one of two things...

1. Put the Ghost server on both VLAN's ( handy if you have a lot of VLAN's and can trunk to the NIC on the Ghost Server ). This is the best option for Multicasting


2. Have a route between the 2 and make sure you have a gateway command in the GhostIP.cfg file. Multicast can get interesting here for routing etc.


We have Ghost running over 12 VLAN's with no great problems.

JJJJNR

Thanks for the suggestion, im running ghost from a PC. What do I do to add the other Vlan. We've only two at the moment, is it a setting on the NIC.

macrubicon

OK - if you have set up trunking via the NIC you should have 2 Virtual NIC's - 1 in each VALN ??

If so - just give them each an IP in the range assigned to the VLAN and don't configure a gateway or enable routing.

JJJJNR

sounds like a plan, can you point me to a "how to" on the virtual NIC I've never config'd one up.

macrubicon

Will do - What NIC do you have ?? Intel / Broadcom etc.

JJJJNR

Its a Intel(R) 82566DM Gigabit Network Card.

macrubicon

Right...

If you have the latest driver and the card supports it...

Go into Device manager and right click on your NIC.

Choose properties and you should have a VLAN's tab.

In there create 2 new VLAN's 1 each in the VLAN's you have set up.

You will then need to configure your switch to trunk traffic to your NIC.

As long as the VLAN ID's are the same away you go....