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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