Hardware Recommendations for LTSP

[Jeff Mings]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but won't you be able to use full duplex 
100Mbit on your server's NIC at the switch?  Full duplex gives a  
_theoretical_  speed of 200 Mbps, although I doubt any hardware really 
gets close to that.  I would guess, however, that you should be able to 
pull 150 Mbps of  _real_ bandwidth, which would give you 18.75 MBps, 
taking you past the theoretical max stated below.

-Jeff


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
> 
> [snip]