Hi Joey, Thank you for the info. I really appreciate it.
Regards, Delz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joey Officer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Delz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Martin Herweg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Hardware Requirements > 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
