[K12OSN] usb wireless nics
Jeremy Schubert
jschubert at shaw.ca
Fri Jun 13 20:18:27 UTC 2008
I'm actually using this for home use. Only three PCs are connecting. I
don't think I'll use it as a server for thin clients. More for file storage
and proxy/firewall.
-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Peter Scheie
Sent: June-13-08 1:38 PM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] usb wireless nics
If you mean for the server, you want wired; and if you mean for the client,
you
still want wired. In the server, for the NIC supporting the clients you
want a
gigabit card, with each client having a 100Mb NIC. You might, *MIGHT* get
away
with a wireless NIC in the server for eth1, the NIC that connects the server
to
the internet/school's network, but it depends on what the server is being
used
for. If it's for a lot of internet stuff, I think the users will be quickly
frustrated by the performance. OTOH, if the primary apps are word
processing
and things that are local to the server, and there's only a modest amount of
upstream traffic, a wireless link might work. But I wouldn't bet heavily on
it.
Instead, I'd suggest focusing on figuring out how to get a wired
connection
to the server.
Peter
Jeremy Schubert wrote:
> I am downloading the 5-EL version for install. Will it support 2 usb
> wireless nics? Or do I need to be wired?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> *From:* k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] *On
> Behalf Of *"Terrell Prudé Jr."
> *Sent:* April-29-08 9:04 AM
> *To:* Support list for open source software in schools.
> *Subject:* Re: [K12OSN] logging in as root
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>
>
> That page is now obsolete. Better to just go to
>
> http://www.k12ltsp.org
>
> and the download links that Les showed you will appear right on the home
> page.
>
> --TP
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> Jeremy Schubert wrote:
>
> Thanks for the advice about the ELS version. I went to
>
> http://www.k12ltsp.org/download.html to get the Fedora version. I assumed
>
> that was the latest ver as it is the K12LTSP site. Please direct me to an
>
> alternate download. Thanks.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com <mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com>
[mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
>
> Of Les Mikesell
>
> Sent: April-22-08 10:42 PM
>
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] logging in as root
>
>
>
> Jeremy Schubert wrote:
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>
>
> Ok, let me try again. I have the server up. Now, I want to connect
>
>
>
> another
>
>
>
> computer to it to act as the thin client. Is what I installed (the
>
>
>
> k12tslp
>
>
>
> ver 6) (on the server) preconfigured to do this? Do I just need to
>
> configure the client computer to boot to PXE? Or will I have to do
some
>
> Google research to learn how to configure the server to accept client
>
> connections?
>
>
>
>
>
> If you are just installing this, you should be using the EL5 version
>
> based on Centos with update support for several more years. Ver 6 is
>
> based on fedora FC6 which has a much faster life cycle and is already
>
> past update support. But to answer the question, if you set up 2 nics
>
> during the install, all you should have to do is have the client set for
>
> PXE boot and plugged into the server's eth0.
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