Hi all, After bombing out on an xbox-based MythTV frontend I'm looking at other options. One idea is a diskless workstation. In this area I have a few questions based on reading through this document:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml 1) Wouldn't a diskless workstation with Gigabit networking be basically as fast as a standard machine with a medium performance disk drive? I.E. - 1Gb/S == 125MB/S. Assuming 50% bus efficiency I'd still get >60MB/S throughput which is higher than my desktop disk drives provide me today. I'm sure there is latency across the network but overall it seems this would work pretty well. 2) The HOWTO says to "Also make sure you have one interface to the Internet separated from the local area connection". Is this to ensure that the diskless workstation doesn't try to do DHCP from the Internet? 3) Assuming the answer to #2 is 'yes' then does this imply that using diskless workstations absolutely requires separate network cables? I.E. - Can diskless workstations share a network with standard PCs? (I'm concerned here about keeping the DHCP servers from colliding since the Wireless router also has a DHCP server. 4) I have a couple of old desktop machines I want to use for learning experience doing this before I build something small that would sit by the TV. They support 'network boot'. How do I tell if they are using either PXE or Etherboot? Or does it even matter? I'll stop there as I think my other questions are most effected by these answers. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
