[K12OSN] Servers, K12LTSP, and workstation numbers, etc.

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 7/25/06, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 08:26 -0700, Huck wrote:
> > So Jim,
> >
> > You just bond two Gig-E NICS, and plug them into  two separate physical
> > switches and say one switch heads off to LAB A(25 thin clients) and the
> > other to Building B(20 thin clients).
> >
> > And you don't have to touch DNS configuration or anything?
>
> Bonded NICs have to go to the same switch and will help if the
> bottleneck is only within the interface to that switch.  If you
> have many clients connected to other ports on the same switch it
> will probably help. If you have clients distributed across many
> switches connected with a 1 gig backbone, it won't help as
> much to give the server a 2 gig uplink to its nearby switch.



Buy two of these 48 port switches
http://netgear.com/products/details/FS752TS.php
48port (100 Mbps) + 4 1000 Mbps
aggregate 2 of the 1000Mbps ports into a trunk to the second switch. So you
have 2 1000Mbps ports going to the server (bonded). And the other two going
to the other switch as a trunk. 96 ports total. They cost $350 USD each at
newegg after $50 rebate.




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