Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-22 Thread Randall Craig
* Fathi Ben Nasr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020822 02:28]: > You can query your X server directly with its canonical name instead of ip > address. This same name should point to your four servers in your dns. > I think the less loaded server will respond first. After some clients have logged > in, this

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-22 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
You can query your X server directly with its canonical name instead of ip address. This same name should point to your four servers in your dns. I think the less loaded server will respond first. After some clients have logged in, this server could no more be the less loaded and thus will not be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-21 Thread Darryl Bond
We do 'load balancing' by using multiple dhcp servers. If you use the MAC addresses to (static) map clients to IP addresses then the dhcpd.conf can be used on all servers. When a client requests an address, the lightest loaded (most responsive) server provides the address and boots the client.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-21 Thread Randall Craig
Probably the easiest way is to you xdm indirect broadcasts. ie: x -indirect foo This allows for the user to choose which server to log into. With my setup (SusE) the xdm servers state what the load on the machines are, and the user can choose respectively. You can also to failsafe mea

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-21 Thread Leonid Mamtchenkov
Dear George Hart, Once you wrote about "[Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?": GH> I am in a situation where my company will need to have at least four GH> terminal servers to balance the load in the office. While ltsp works GH> really good,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-21 Thread Zoilo
On Wednesday 21 August 2002 05:00, George Hart wrote: > Hi, > > I am in a situation where my company will need to have at least four > terminal servers to balance the load in the office. While ltsp works > really good, I am having trouble figuring how to load balance these > servers in a scaleab

[Ltsp-discuss] What is the best way to load balance ltsp servers?

2002-08-20 Thread George Hart
Hi, I am in a situation where my company will need to have at least four terminal servers to balance the load in the office. While ltsp works really good, I am having trouble figuring how to load balance these servers in a scaleable way. I took a look at clustering the servers (openmosix) b