[K12OSN] LTSP server with 3 NICs?

R. Scott Belford scott at hosef.org
Fri Dec 19 18:39:14 UTC 2008


2008/12/19 "Terrell Prudé Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com>:
> This is exactly how I did the PPC/x86/SPARC K12LTSP server a while back, and
> yes, it would work wonderfully for your situation.
>
> Basically, you'd need to do this:
>
> 1.)  Set up your third NIC for another client subnet (e. g. 192.168.4.0/24),
> and hook 'er up to that switch.
>
> 2.)  Modify /etc/hosts to include host entries for the 192.168.4.0 range,
> just like the ones for 192.168.0.0 are today.

Right on, Terrell.  This is how I have done it for labs and for the
PTC email garden.  I am thinking that /etc/hosts.allow needs to be
modified, and I think I had to assign somewhat different hostnames for
the 192.168.4.0 range in /etc/hosts.

>
> Note that this is not channel-bonding.  This is just good ol' fashioned
> separate interfaces on separate broadcast domains.  There doesn't seem to be
> any need to channel-bond here.

This is a key point for many.  Often times the congestion on your
server is not at your dual or core or octa CPU or in your RAM or in
your disk I/O.  It is at your single NIC, even if it's a giganic,
trying to serve all that data.  I rarely do an install with only one
NIC for the LAN.

>
> --TP

--scott




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