Hardware Recommendations for LTSP

[Deven Phillips, CISSP]

Warren,

	Why not try bonding the ethernet adapters? That way you can get the two
adpaters to act as a single adapter with double the bandwidth??

Just a thought

Deven Phillips, CISSP
Network Architect
Viata Online, Inc.

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the recommendations everyone.
> 
> Just one question...
> This will be configured with the Linux Terminal Server with 100Mbit ethernet
> in one port of the switch.  Thin client computers will be in other ports.
> That will be about 60KB/sec of X data idle, up to 700KB/sec during moderate
> activity.
> 
> Theoretical max for Ethernet 100Mbit/8 ~ 12.5MB/sec
> Theoretical max bandwidth requirement for 23 clients ~ 16.1MB/sec
> 
> Meaning I could be in trouble.  To make matters worse I doubt the NIC can
> reach 90% of the theoretical 12.5MB/sec.  Anyone know if I can kludge my way
> around this problem with TWO NIC interfaces on the server, using two ports
> on the switch?  For example 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 are the LTSP
> interfaces, and a quick hack to the BOOTP server will round robin either as
> the LTSP server.
> 
> If this configuration works, then perhaps the Kingston 32-port managed
> switch would be a good deal in order to get more thin clients onto the
> server.
> 
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
> 
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