On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> >> This is what AoE (ATA over Ethernet) and iSCSI (SCSI over IP) are all about. >>They're kind of inefficient, though. > > ... my experience is rather opposite... > ... AoE is crazy fast ...given good hardware ... > ... Sure, if you run either of them over 100 meg no name nics on cheap > switches ...
The original post specifically said "come across some OLD laptops". I think your caveat at the end is exactly the situation we're talking about. I also specifically said "Modern hardware often overcomes their [AoE/iSCSI] inefficiencies". In other words, throw fast network gear at it, and it doesn't matter if the protocol isn't as efficient as a local disk drive. On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: > Get ThinStation and simply pxe boot a super small image > with a default app of firefox, add vnc as an app. I'm not familiar with ThinStation. Web site looks interesting. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip. If one's goal is just a web or RDP client, it looks like ThinStation would indeed be easier than LTSP, especially if you don't already have a convenient Linux host. Which I'm guessing the OP doesn't have. FWIW/FYI: If the goal is to use a thin client to connect to a Linux application host, LTSP is basically the same thing. LTSP 5 isn't like the old versions, where you had to keep a separate working Linux installation around on the server for the clients. LTSP 5 just takes the host's OS and lets the diskless clients boot from it. Since you already have a Linux host in this scenario, it's pretty straight-forward. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
