[K12OSN] EL6 32bit kernel-thinclient config

[Gideon Romm]

The PXE code in the BIOS is only IPv4 aware. An IPv6 LTSP solution
will necessarily rely on something other than PXE for booting.

I am sure gPXE is most likely working on IPv6 support (if they don't
have it already), but if you are to rely on the PXE code that ships
with most machines by default, you will be limited to IPv4.

That said, having the possibility in the OS might still be welcome,
both for alternative boot methods and in case you want to boot from an
IPv4 segment but have the OS use IPv6 once booted.

-Gadi

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM, "Terrell Prudé Jr."
<microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
> The only possible concern I might have is if LTSP5 supports IPv6, and if
> that's a foreseeable deployment in the next 6 years (remaining life of
> CentOS 6).  The reason for this is that some folks, like me, have done
> K12LTSP deployments with the thin clients on the school's main LAN for both
> technical and political reasons.  I know of at least one school which has
> LAN segments that are IPv6.
>
> Perhaps this isn't a problem in the real world, since I personally don't see
> even that school turning off IPv4 support for at least 10 years.
>
> Thoughts, anyone?
>
> --TP
>
> Warren Togami wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I managed to get this to build with the RHEL6 kernel sources plus one
>> patch to workaround Red Hat Bugzilla #729488.  I am now working on figuring
>> out how to package it in a supportable RPM.
>>
>> http://togami.com/~warren/temp/config-thin-client.txt
>> This config file disables PAE, enables nbd.ko, and disables many
>> components that are irrelevant to thin clients.  So far it shrank the
>> initramfs image from 16.7MB to 10.7MB.
>>
>> It still could be reduced further.  I plan on disabling IPv6 and maybe
>> some individual RAID controller drivers.  Any recommendations of more
>> options to disable?
>>
>> Warren
>>
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