Hi, I've been puzzling over the problem of load balancing for some time and I've come up with an idea.
Our current setup here is that we have 1 nis/nfs server for authentication and sharing of /home, and we have 3 ltsp servers each with dhcpd/tftpd/xdmcp. Here the server that is under the least load will/should reply to dhcp requests first (all terminals are hardcoded an ip using mac address), each ltsp server then authenticates and mounts /home from the central server. Works ok, but not very pretty. Now my idea now (and I really don't know if this is going to work) is to have 1 dhcpd server (maybe 2 using dhcp failover as described int the dhcp3 docs) and then load balance the tftp services. So my question is: once the client has gotten the pxe image from one of the 3 servers and starts to boot will it use this server to mount its / directory on and connect to its xdmcp service? Any thoughts? -- ----- Kind regards Alistair Crust Systems Administrator Skegness Grammar School Vernon Road Skegness PE25 2QS TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852) FAX: 01754 896875 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.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
