I don't see a compelling reason to disable a future capability like IPv6 for space reasons. Most schools will be IPv4 until their upstream ISP requires them to be otherwise. The ones that do implement IPv6 will likely do a dual stack first anyway so a sudden failure of the thin clients will be bad. Things that can come out of the thin client kernel are the oddball networking protocols for novell netware and windows shares as that is handled at the server end anyway and all the ham network protocols. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <<a href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com">microman@cmosnetworks.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> The only possible concern I might have is if LTSP5 supports IPv6, and if that's a foreseeable deployment in the next 6 years (remaining life of CentOS 6). The reason for this is that some folks, like me, have done K12LTSP deployments with the thin clients on the school's main LAN for both technical and political reasons. I know of at least one school which has LAN segments that are IPv6. Perhaps this isn't a problem in the real world, since I personally don't see even that school turning off IPv4 support for at least 10 years. Thoughts, anyone? --TP<div><div></div><div class="h5"> Warren Togami wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi folks, I managed to get this to build with the RHEL6 kernel sources plus one patch to workaround Red Hat Bugzilla #729488. I am now working on figuring out how to package it in a supportable RPM. <a href="http://togami.com/%7Ewarren/temp/config-thin-client.txt" target="_blank">http://togami.com/~warren/temp/config-thin-client.txt</a> This config file disables PAE, enables nbd.ko, and disables many components that are irrelevant to thin clients. So far it shrank the initramfs image from 16.7MB to 10.7MB. It still could be reduced further. I plan on disabling IPv6 and maybe some individual RAID controller drivers. Any recommendations of more options to disable? Warren _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- -- James P. Kinney III As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. - 2011 Noam Chomsky <a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a>