[luau] The open-sourcing of PriceBusters

[Warren Togami]

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 13:31, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> A bandwidth side note.  Our stores access the server through DSL.  Right now
> we pay for the 768/128 bandwidth option through verizon.  The dsl modems are
> routed to my frame, and the clients are given static ip's.  The one issue
> that could arise, for instance, using tftp for the root image is that there
> could be a moment in the morning when 70 registers are requesting this image
> close to the same time bringing the nework to a crawl.  We will be upgrading
> our frame speed soon so I can offer ISP access to some of our management.
> In the meantime, we have bandwidth constraints.  Because we have a "private"
> network, telnet sessions, while not the best, have not freaked my out, yet.
> 
> scott

I would highly suggest against using any tftp kernel boot or NFS mounts
here for security and especially reliability concerns.  All operating
system and software needed should work fine from an IDE flash disk.