[K12OSN] LTSP server with 3 NICs?

Sat Dec 20 18:11:56 UTC 2008

I agree, and that's how I've done it.  Matter of fact, in our schools, I 
have to, given that our thin clients may be spread out through the 
school.  VLANs save my hiney then.  I can just dedicate one VLAN per 
thin-client segment, and boom, I'm off to the races.

Layer 3 (aka "routing") would be done by the K12LTSP server for anything 
on the thin-client segment, so that's taken care of.

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Paul VanGundy wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> Continue on the path that works for you. It sounds like people go the
> route you have chosen. However, VLANs would work and don't need to be
> used JUST for breaking down large networks. This would work perfectly
> especially if you were doing layer 3 routing. There is no scalability
> issues as mentioned before...except hardware (ie you can't do VLANs on
> your hardware or your hardware doesn't support enough VLAN creations
> for the size of your network). I would be happy to discuss this with
> anyone if someone wished to pursue this route and had questions.
>
> /paul
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> 802.1q, or as I understand it -- VLANS -- would also do the same idea
>> so to speak.  The issue is the hardware.  We don't have anything that
>> is capable of doing VLANS.  I thought since this isn't the case of a
>> large single network that I'm trying to break up into two smaller
>> virtual networks, but rather two distinct rooms that are coming
>> together, I could use the 2 NICs to resolve it?
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Paul VanGundy
>> <pvangundy at bradfordnetworks.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Joseph,
>>>
>>> Would 802.1q be a better solution instead of having two cards to
>>> separate two environments and a third NIC to act as your access to the
>>> outside world?
>>>
>>> /paul
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> How are you? I hope you are all doing well.
>>>>
>>>> I figure after lurking for a while it was time to get all my questions out. :)
>>>>
>>>> It ends up that our new LTSP network has two groups of clients
>>>> (currently existing LTSP room A and a new room of thin clients in room
>>>> B).  Each room has a switch.  There are 2 cables that then run from
>>>> room A and B to a common server room where the LTSP server is.
>>>> Originally the LTSP server was in room A serving only that room.
>>>>
>>>> Our LTSP server has 3 network cards.  Currently one of those cards is
>>>> not active.  The second NIC plugs into the switch for the thin clients
>>>> and the last NIC plugs into the router for Internet access.
>>>>
>>>> How do I activate that 3rd NIC card as a second thin client card?
>>>> That way NIC A serves room A and NIC B serves room B and NIC C access
>>>> the internet for room A & B?
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't able to search for this because I didn't know what this
>>>> process was called -- I didn't think it was network bonding.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Joseph
>>>>
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