[K12OSN] Server Configuration question

[Les Mikesell]

Joseph Bishay wrote:
> 
> I hope everyone is well.
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Almquist Burke <burke at thealmquists.net> wrote:
>> Could you just connect your two networks together? Or, if you want the speed
>> of an extra card, you could bond them and have the bonded interface connect
>> to the ltspbr0 bridge device instead of just the one ethN card.
> 
> I don't see how I can connect the two networks together.  I have two
> different floors in the Church.  Each floor has thin clients that all
> connect into a single switch.  An uplink from each floor goes to the
> server room. So in the server room in the basement I've got a cable
> from the 2nd floor switch and a cable from the 1st floor switch.
> Currently I have both those cables going into another switch and then
> a cable from the LTSP server to that switch.  I was hoping to
> eliminate that switch (and it's potential bottle-neck) by plugging the
> cable from the 2nd floor into one NIC and the the 1st floor into the
> other NIC.
> 
> Is that do-able?

It seems like it should work to add another ethernet NIC to the bridge 
if you want all the clients to appear on the same net - with some 
overhead for propagating broadcasts between segments.  That should be 
easy enough to try.  If it doesn't work or you don't like it, you should 
also be able to configure two separate client subnets if you adjust the 
dhcpd.conf file, iptables and any other permission-related settings.

You may have to change your cable from a crossover between switches to a 
non-crossover to the server NIC - but I think gig connections are always 
supposed to autodetect.

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   Les Mikesell
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