Hi Martin, Thanks for the inputs. Our company plans to run all 55 workstations using LTSP and all are running 10baseT Lan cards, we also have a high-end server that has a gigabit ethernet and a switch that also has a gigabit port. Will this run smoothly on our LAN?
thanks. Delz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Herweg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Delz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hardware Requirements > Delz wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Can LTSP run smoothly if all my workstations are using 10baseT 3c509 LAN > > cards and using 10/100 Mbps switches and not 10/100Mbps hubs? > > yes. put a 100 Mbps Card and enough RAM (depends on your applications) > into the server. > > we have 17 workstations running with 3c509 cards > > > Will the switch I > > will be using help speed up the connection to the server? > > yes. we tried a hub before, that was bad: one user starts an action game > or screen-saver then every workstation was slowed down. > with the switch the game-player only slows his own workstation, everyone > else is not affected. > > Greetings, > Martin > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
