Thanks Ken.
Ken Yap wrote:
>
> >General question? - are boot prom's proprietary or can the same boot
> >prom be moved to various NIC's?
>
> Follow the link to Etherboot www.slug.org.au/etherboot :-)
>
> Etherboot is GPLed. The ROMs are NIC specific of course, there is no
> universal NIC design.
Will probably look at a boot floppy then. The floppy drive can always
be mounted internally to keep it out of little fingers way.
....
> >Then the problem will be the networking. I noticed that none of the
> >costings included network upgrades to handle the extra network
> >traffic.
>
> Have a look at some of the typical sites mentioned in LTSP and on the
> mailing list. Clusters of some 60-70 clients on a 100 Mb network have
> been done.
I'm not too worried about what can be done, but rather that when linux
people propose a trial, that they don't find they get bitten by a
gotcha.
Whilst we can look at reusing old hardware, you may still have to
shell out on a 100Mb uplink capable hub and have relatively new wiring
(cat 5 capable).
If you are doing a business case, it is something you want to keep in
mind if you want your trial to be successful and your reputation to
improve.
It is funny how some PHB will not spend on paralleling a cat 5 link.
It killed one thinclient (non-linux) trial stone dead, but then the PC
clients were regarded as slow anyway (24 PCs over a 10Mb uplink).
About 50% of the companies business came ove these PC's and putting
each hub onto a direct link into the backbone hubs would have solved
the slowness problem anyway.
The article didn't even consider the networking demands and they can
be critical. I think that there have been a few messages about it in
the past.
Still, don't let this put anyone off trying.
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