As one approach to load balancing and fail-over for mission critical applications of LTSP, I've developed a HOWTO that leverages the existing features of dhcp for this purpose. The document integrates LTSP into the context of a larger system that I call the "ETS" or Embedded Terminal Server. The purpose of the ETS (and it's parent, Project Theseus) is to lower the learning curve and barrier of entry to Linux and make large scale institutional deployments easier to justify, initiate and manage.
The ETS HOWTO can be found here: http://theseus.sourceforge.net/projects/ets/ets-howto.html The system described in the HOWTO has been operational and working very nicely for several months. The document contains a lot of details and represents most of the experiences I had getting the fail-over and load balancing pair to work along with Samba, Wine, Shorewall, Windows domain authentication and openMosix. I initially wrote the HOWTO as documentation for the ETS installs I've already done at a local elementary school... but I've decided to release it in the hopes that it will be useful to others who have undertaken similar projects. Suggestions and corrections on the document's content and system architecture are welcomed and appreciated. Best regards, -Tom Lisjac http://theseus.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0002en _____________________________________________________________________ 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
