[K12OSN] multiple LTSP servers on the same network using XDMCP chooser

[Shawn Powers]

Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Does anyone on this list have FC2 and XDMCP chooser  running multiple 
> LTSP servers and a central mounted NFS /home? If yes, could you post the 
> critical pieces of the setup process and samples from your history 
> commands? We're in a real bind here and could use a success story! :)

I've heard a lot of talk about XDMCP choosers, but my solution (over 
Christmas break) is going to be a round-robin DNS entry for the servers. 
  In the dhcpd.conf file, I'll point the clients to a dns name instead 
of an IP address, and split the load.

It may not be perfectly balanced, but it should be pretty close.  Also, 
failure should be transparent to the users because I'll just pluck the 
failed server from the round robin entry...

All that said, I'm still using 4.0.1 (FC1 I believe) and haven't seen 
any NFS issues, so I can't comment on that part.

-Shawn

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