On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:46:42PM +0700, Mohammad Ikhsan wrote: > Hello ltsp-discuss, > [...]
> anyway those small LAN was a testbed systems. My next assigment is to > remodified our outdated diskless Netware 4.0 LAN used for computer > training. we have 90 P100 with 16mb RAMor so diskless > clients that are connected to 2 PIII 533 netware servers that host win > 3.11, and 2 additional PIII 533 that runs on Mandrake 8.2 for Linux > use. > I want to replace the 2 netware servers with an LTSP v3 servers, and > remove any microsoft products. > My questions are: > - Is the clients specs adequate to run on RL5/KDE/ICEWM+OpenOffice? The clients don't run X applications when you use LTSP. They only display them, and for that purpose, P100 with 16 Mb RAM is OK, though NFS-swap will help here (NFS-swap is said to work much better on 100Mbit than on 10Mbit). > - how do i make certain clients connect to a specific server ie: > client 1 - 20 to ltsp1, 21 - 40 to ltsp2, and so on? > - do i really have to note each client's NIC MAC address? Either you separate the networks physically, or you do it by MAC address. If you only want an even spread so that half of the client automatically connects to one server and the other half connect to the other, you could load balance with dchpd (but that only works for exactly two servers). Separating the networks physically will save bandwith, but make the system more sensitive (If one server is broken, the clients cabled to it will be unusable) > - should i make 2 ltsp servers and make 2 other host applications? or > should i make 4 LTSP servers? Dedicated application servers saves RAM, but decreases the fault tolerance of the system (If one them goes down, no one will be able to use the application it was supposed to run). Dedicated application servers also means that the network cannot be separated physically, wich can be a problem with regards to network bandwidth. More full LTSP servers can imply more complex administration of priviledges and user data if the users are using different workplaces. You might need to sync passwords and /home or use a dedicated server for autentication and /home. Your choice. -- Hans Ekbrand
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