Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up

2008-11-24 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:36 AM, jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously I configured my DNS under bind. However, I noticed that after booting 4 or 5 thin clients, bind9 would magically stop replying to queries. At this point, sudo would become very slow and few of my clients would be

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:19:36PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Thanks Steve, I didn't know gPXE was universal because I only downloaded images from rom-o-matic. you can download a universal gPXE iso from rom-o-matic.net, just select the gpxe:all-drivers driver. why it isn't the default is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up

2008-11-19 Thread jam
On Thursday 20 November 2008 04:27:31 ltsp-discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will do, but Im just annoyed by the individual ROM generation from ROM-o-matic. My refurbished units all have different lan cards and I was hoping for a universal diskette bootrom. Any help? :) I think

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-18 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Steve Cayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM, JF Straeten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps could you give gPXE a try, instead of etherboot, and see if it change

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-18 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Mark David Dumlao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Are my local services performing DNS lookups? Why? How do I get them to stop doing that? I've screwed up my host name in the past, lo and behold, sudo, ssh and probably some others become really slow or unusable. It

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Cayford
Mark David Dumlao wrote: [...] Anyways, it would seem that I have two problems that ask for a solution: 1) Are my local services performing DNS lookups? Why? How do I get them to stop doing that? 2) Is my pdns / bind / whatever dns under attack by bots using rndc? How do I stop them? This

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-17 Thread JF Straeten
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:06:34PM -0600, Steve Cayford wrote: Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM, JF Straeten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps could you give gPXE a try, instead of etherboot, and see if it change anything ?

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Owens
Mark David Dumlao wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM, JF Straeten [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps could you give gPXE a try, instead of etherboot, and see if it change anything ? Will do, but Im just annoyed by the individual ROM generation from

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Owens
I think that server should be able to handle 10 clients or more, based on my experience. It'll depend somewhat on what applications you're running, but for basic office stuff 10 clients should be no problem. Check /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf to make sure that you have more than 5 addresses in your

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-16 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:47 AM, JF Straeten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps could you give gPXE a try, instead of etherboot, and see if it change anything ? Will do, but Im just annoyed by the individual ROM generation from ROM-o-matic. My refurbished units all have different lan cards and I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-16 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Mark David Dumlao [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 5 - disk channel I'll make sure tomorrow that my RAID disks are on different channels. But I think they already are, and I think that even if they were on the same channel, the performance wouldn't be THAT bad. Yipes.

[Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-14 Thread Mark David Dumlao
Hello ltsp-discuss list! I'm setting up a thin client laboratory for a computer school in the Philippines, in the Visayas region, and I'm encountering some difficulties with getting the clients to boot up. Problem statement: I have a lab of 20 units booting off of a lower-middle class desktop

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] [ltsp-discuss] Network clients stop responding for a while after 4 or 5 units boot up.

2008-11-14 Thread JF Straeten
Mark, On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:35:38AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: 3 - Etherboot is dumb maybe etherboot is just discarding DHCP requests because it isn't very smart. How much intelligence can you fit on a floppy disk anyhow? But this is suspect, because other clients besides