Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-15 Thread Immanuel Derks
Xavier Brochard wrote: Le Thursday 11 October 2007 20:47:16 Francis Giraldeau, vous avez écrit : About the best solution I've seen is to distribute the XDMCP sessions between the servers. Yeah, that's right. Dispatching sessions on servers is realy easy to do. Install one server

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-13 Thread Xavier Brochard
Le Thursday 11 October 2007 20:47:16 Francis Giraldeau, vous avez écrit : About the best solution I've seen is to distribute the XDMCP sessions between the servers. Yeah, that's right. Dispatching sessions on servers is realy easy to do. Install one server as a the master, that will run

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/5/07, Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my idea now (and I really don't know if this is going to work) is to have 1 dhcpd server (maybe 2 using dhcp failover as described int the dhcp3 docs) and then load balance the tftp services. You have such a high load that you need to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am Freitag, den 05.10.2007, 14:33 +0100 schrieb Alistair Crust: Hi, I've been puzzling over the problem of load balancing for some time and I've come up with an idea. Our current setup here is that we have 1 nis/nfs server for authentication and sharing of /home, and we have 3 ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Alistair Crust
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:27 +0200, Sebastien Koechlin wrote: On 10/5/07, Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now my idea now (and I really don't know if this is going to work) is to have 1 dhcpd server (maybe 2 using dhcp failover as described int the dhcp3 docs) and then load balance

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Alistair Crust
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:46 +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: Am Freitag, den 05.10.2007, 14:33 +0100 schrieb Alistair Crust: Hi, I've been puzzling over the problem of load balancing for some time and I've come up with an idea. Our current setup here is that we have 1 nis/nfs

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Jim Kusznir
Load-balancing seems to come up a lot on this list, and in my own configuration. Its also rather difficult to do at an ideal level, as the load is session-based. By that, I mean when a user logs in, s/he does so on a specific server, and for the duration of that login, the session cannot be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Sebastien Koechlin
On 10/11/07, Jim Kusznir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a better solution would be to modify the startx screen script to be able to take a list of XDMCP servers, and every time it starts a connection, it does a ping of sorts, taking into account load, on the server list and connects to the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-11 Thread Francis Giraldeau
Hi, About the best solution I've seen is to distribute the XDMCP sessions between the servers. Yeah, that's right. Dispatching sessions on servers is realy easy to do. Install one server as a the master, that will run nfsd home and client root, nis (or slapd) tftpd, dhcpd and xdmcp. On other

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-10 Thread Jim Kronebusch
Now my idea now (and I really don't know if this is going to work) is to have 1 dhcpd server (maybe 2 using dhcp failover as described int the dhcp3 docs) and then load balance the tftp services. So my question is: once the client has gotten the pxe image from one of the 3 servers and

[Ltsp-discuss] Load balancing, just a thought

2007-10-05 Thread Alistair Crust
Hi, I've been puzzling over the problem of load balancing for some time and I've come up with an idea. Our current setup here is that we have 1 nis/nfs server for authentication and sharing of /home, and we have 3 ltsp servers each with dhcpd/tftpd/xdmcp. Here the server that is under the