I would think about upgrading you clients to 100mbit ethernet cards. While 10mbit is still pretty quick, that will be your bottleneck. The gigabit card on your server should do just fine, without ever becomming a bottleneck, except in that it'll be waiting to deliver data to your workstations. D-Link offers a rather nice 10/100 pci card for about $10 US, and is very well supported. Maybe not all at once, but I would definately think about moving to 100mbit
10mbit = 1.25MB/s - megabyte/sec 100mbit = 12.5MB/s - megabyte/sec I have watched my network monitor under windowmaker, and quite often I get 900k/s throughputs. This is using a 100mbit card. Remember, this value is a peak, and there for reality says that the average number is going to be lower. However on a 10mbit card, the peak is going to be even lower, AND the average even lower than that. The network traffic here is going to be where you spend some time and research into getting the most throughput for your clients. I setup our office very similar to what you are referring to. Server has 1 gigabit card, and all the workstations are 100mbit, We only run about 15 workstations, but everything moves quite smoothly. And as time goes on, the only thing that you'll need to upgrade is the server memory, and possibly server cpu power. good luck joey On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 20:03, Delz wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.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
