Of course you could use a commercial load balancer and increase that number rather than depending on DHCP. I have been looking at using a Cisco CSS switch to take care of it.
-David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nuno Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 8:05 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: Re: LTSP Server Cluster > Sorry for being incomplete. The limit of 2 servers is imposed if you > want to use the dynamic load-balancing capabilities of DHCP as the > director. > > Of course, you can have as many DHCP servers as you want, but that's not > load-balancing, but rather failover - the clients will connect to the > first server to reach the clients. However *all* the servers respond to > the client. Usually, the client gets the > most-powerfull/geographically/phisically nearest server - which > confirms you are not doing dynamic load-balancing. That's almost the same > as splitting the DHCPD range amongst all servers, so each one has a static > subrange assigned. > > How do you mean by "a quick kick of the dhcpd sorts that out"? > > Still, you may even setup an LVS director to load-balance the DHCP > requests to all the DHCP servers, thus extending the limit, but then > again, you would not be using DHCPD's balancing capabilities. > > Em Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:34:59 +0100, root escreveu: > > > Not true in our experience; you can have as many DHCP servers as you want. > > We have 6 servers for our LTSP clients and each is a DHCP server. The thin > > clients connect to a "random" box when they boot up, so the load gets > > distrubted amongst the servers. This worked fine under RH9 and now is > > working in a mix of RH9 and FC1 servers, with no special software installed > > to handle the load balancing. Like the ad says "Isn't it nice when things > > just work?" I haven't fathomed how it all works but I think it probably has > > something to do with the load on the server. Sometimes the most powerful of > > the servers gets a bit greedy takes more clients, but a quick kick of the > > dhcpd sorts that out. > > -- > Nuno Tavares > http://nthq.cjb.net/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on > Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, > one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology > Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
