Matthew,
the short answer is: you can, but you'll wish you didn't. Here is
why: bandwidth and download speed. Practically, you have to have a
hardvare vpn running or have leased lines. T1 is really not all that fast.
with any real traffic on it you have an excellent chance of timout on tftp
of the kernel. then you got the kernel and arr off running, ahem,
crawling. the typical connects are just not fast enough and if you have
enough pipe you should be able to afford the servers in remote locations
and save money by cutting bandwidth ;-)
just for the heck of it i tried it with a terminal in my
neighbour's house and server at my desk, connection by vpn routers, cable
"modems", speed varying between 800K and 3.5M. 3.5M is usable, albeit
slow, 800K - bootp times out. the real difficulty is that you need
consistent reasonable bandwidth between the server and the terminal. just
get them servers or go for T3 (and even then I'd get the servers, because
the number of stations must be large to make fork the dough for T3). just
my $0.02, julius
p.s. i also tried with earthlink sattelite connects - no go.
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, mslicker wrote:
>
> Question:
>
> Has any work been done on using LTSP over the Internet to boot
> workstations?
>
> What I am really asking is can LTSP work in an enterprise environment
> rather than just workgroups (subnets). Can I have a central server room
> that boots diskless workstations on many different subnets within a large
> organization?
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
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