Several reasons come to mind all based around the need for segregation of traffic. 1) DHCP. If I'm already running dhcp in the wider network, placing my terminals on a separate network allows me to do the pxe/netboot stuff without changing my 'public' dhcsp. 2) Security (Phase 1). I don't want others to see my terminal traffic 3) Security (Phase 2). NFS is not secure. I don't want my nfs shares out where folks other than the terminals can see them. 4) Security (Phase 3). I want to control the access of the terminals. Having them gateway through the server gives me a single control & monitoring point. (ie, SquidGuard)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wildman, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 614-404-1897 http://www.rossberry.com On Tue, 21 May 2002, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002 10:31:42 +0200, "Hans Ekbrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't understand why this would be of benefit; having two seperate lines >might buy some bandwidth, but it must be a real pain in physically wiring the place. >Besides- I would thing the internet traffic (0>1M/sec, typical) would almost be >unnoticed on a 100-base-T network. Am I missing something? > > > > I think you are writing about different things. Richard Camp probably > > refers to a solution where only the server is connected to "the > > internet", while you seem to write about a setup where every terminal > > has two nics, one for internet traffic and one for LTSP. The OP was > > not clear about why he wanted a "gateway", perhaps he didn't know what > > he wanted. And the answers he recieved reflected that ambiguity. > > No, not the terminals- the server. Everyone's been pretty resolute about >putting the dual cards at the server...one to the terminal farm, the other to the >rest of the net. I just don't see why anyone would bother. What's the scoop? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Brian Fahrländer Linux Zealot, Conservative, and Technomad > Evansville, IN My Voyage: http://www.CounterMoon.com > ICQ 5119262 > AOL: WheelDweller > Yahoo: WheelDweller Me: http://www.kamakiriad.com/aboutme.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
