I just did a measurement on how much data is transfered to and from a thin client when it boots. I used 'iftop -i eth1' on the thin client server to measure this.
One thin client received 42 MiB and sent 3 MiB from being turned on until the login screen showed up. Klaus Ade tells me on IRC that a diskless workstation receives 117 MiB and sends 12 MiB (average based on 70 machines booting). These clients had some extra stuff (samba, winbind), so the numbers might not be representative for the default configuration in Debian Edu 3.0. Anyone know how this compare to other thin client solutions? How does this compare to the nbd based option in newer LTSP? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
