Miles Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Trying to get LTSP running effectively at work to have a bit of a play > with > loadings etc... I've got it working on one machine quite happily. > However, > when I try to get it running on a another I have some problems. > > The error I am getting is "No dhcpcd.eth0.info file". This appears just > after "Run dhclient" line. It seems to probe the network card ok. The > network card in this machine is a ISA 3c509 card. The one in the > machine > that works is a PCI 3c905B.
The 3c509 could be set to run in Plug-n-Play mode. I have seen in some instances that the Etherboot code runs this NIC fine, but fails in the second stage when LTSP tries to take over. The remedy usually is to disable PnP using the 3Com utilities (under DOS). What happens is that the NIC is able to send packets, but not receive. You will see on the server that the DHCP request is sent from the workstation and a response sent back. But this is never picked up by the NIC. There is some mention of this at http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html The other thing that could be wrong is that you don't have the option-128 and option-129 parts of /etc/dhcpd.conf right. But then the error message should be that LTSP cannot find the NIC, since this is an ISA card. The 3c905 is found by the PCI scan that LTSP runs and all is well. > > The other problem I am having is with fonts. I have several fonts > installed > on the server which work fine in Koffice and Openoffice. However, how > do I > get these to work on the workstation? Can I install these so they are > picked up by the workstations X server? I don't want huge font files > being > transferred across the network every few seconds either, so can it be > part > of the X server which LTSP uses? > > Another question, anyone know of the bandwidth it uses over a network? > I've > had a play with running X and this tends to have a very high bandwidth > requirement. Is LTSP much better? I know cytrix metaframe needs around > 50k. Apparently XFree86 4.x uses less bandwidth than 3.x, and KDE uses less than Gnome. LTSP v3 is XFree86 4.x based, unless the video card in the workstation is not supported in 4.x. Look in the docs, section 8.2 for details. Generally X is a bandwidth hog, though. If you let your users run screen savers your network quickly fills up with packets ;-) The requirement is much higher than 50k, though. I've tried using X on an ISDN line, but gave up. It all depends on how heavy the use is, and how your network is set up. Remember that the final leg from e.g. a switch to the server is the bottleneck. Jim made some comments to this on the list very recently. Reasonable response in X, in my experience, is with around 250-500k bandwith. -- Mvh Ragnar Wisl�ff LinuxLabs AS Tlf 90 89 41 52 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
