On Saturday 17 December 2005 12:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone thought of making a special root directory that could host an > IPcop or Smoothwall firewall? > > The smallest hard drive I can buy is 20GB. A waist when IPcop only uses > maybe 2GB of that. I don't see why I need to run a hard drive at all > with all the features of an LTSP client. > > I know some people are making cluster farms using LTSP where the clients > boot up as nodes on a cluster but has anyone done anything to make a > firewall.
Royce ltsp has paved the way and shown how What I've done (similar need, different app) make an nfs rooted host to do only 1 client, read-write. You need space on your server for ThatClient's root filesystem. In every respect your client is a stand-alone machine, with no disk and net boot. Note you may do this for one client only, but you have a standalone dedicated machine. (You can have lots of client setups like this on 1 server, just ThatClient uses ThatClientsRootFilesystem not shared ReadOnly as ltsp, ie you can't have two clients using ThatClientsRootFilesystem) James ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net