If I am not mistaken, ldm support multiple servers listed in its LDM_SERVER configuration variable. We could use this to provide a LTSP cluster solution out of the box with a trivial change to the current configuration.
All LTSP servers on the network are expected to be a member of the ltsp-server netgroup in LDAP. If this is the case, we can fill the LDM_SERVER variable at run time with the content from this netgroup, and LDM will then pick the first server in the list. If we make sure to randomize the list or order it based on load or something like that, we would have a load balancing LTSP cluster out of the box. I was floating this idea some years ago in <URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2007/10/msg00172.html >. Perhaps time to make this a default feature? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
