Hardware Recommendations for LTSP
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Wed May 9 12:24:05 PDT 2001
Whoops. Yeah, I forgot about full duplex. However, over 99% of the X data
is one way from the LTSP box to thin clients, so I'll probably run into the
same 100Mbit theoretical max.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Mings" <jeffm at lava.net>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: Hardware Recommendations for LTSP
> 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
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