[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
> 
>  
> 
> 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:
> 
>   
> 
>     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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> 
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