[RHCE] Re: First meeting

[Jason Tower]

the server needs to have a moderately fast cpu and, for ten workstations,=
 i'd=20
say 512mb ram minimum.  and two nics, one for the main lan and one for th=
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thin clients.  for the workstations, it helps if they all have the same v=
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cards and nics, but most popular cards are supported (not all, however). =
 and=20
we'll need a seperate hub/switch for the workstations since they run on a=
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seperate subnet isolated from the mail lan.  i may have a spare cisco 24-=
port=20
switch that i can spare for a little while.  and i can possibly loan out =
one=20
of my servers if necessary.  poor excuse for an ascii diagram:

|-------------------------------|
|=09=09=09eth0  |----->LAN, dhcp client (10.0.0.x)
|  LTSP server=09=09|
|=09=09=09eth1=09|-----> thin client hub, dhcp server, (192.168.0.254)
|-------------------------------|

rock, can you post the specs for the server and workstations?

jason

On Thursday 23 January 2003 00:31, Scott Stancil wrote:
> Excellent!  I have really wanted an excuse to set LTSP, but just didn't
> see a need until you mentioned it.  Do you think you could make the fir=
st
> meeting?  I will try to read up on LTSP again before the meeting so tha=
t I
> may be useful; although, we will probably need to see what he has.  Wou=
ld
> we need an inventory of the hardware--specifics to make sure it is
> supported?
>
> Scott
>
> > i'll probably attend a few meetings if possible (the ones in raleigh
> > anyway).   and sure, i'll help set up the ltsp server.  actually,
> > setting it up is a  good exercise, it involves nfs, dhcp, tftp, remot=
e X
> > sessions, rpms,  networking, and lots of little config files.  it's n=
ot
> > directly part of the  rhce exam, but learning all of the little tools
> > and applying them in various  combinations is what *nix is all about.
> >
> > jason
> >
> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 22:36, Scott Stancil wrote:
> >> I assume this is not part of the RHCE.  So does this mean you will
> >> volunteer to setup or at least drive the setup of LTSP at his shop?
> >>
> >> Scott
> >>
> >> > two words: thin client.  set up ONE server, install LTSP, and boot
> >>
> >> the workstations from an etherboot floppy.  never touch the local
> >> hard disks.
> >>
> >> > jason
> >> >
> >> > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 19:59, Scott Stancil wrote:
> >> >> The hump day tends to be a bad day, Rock, at least for myself.  O=
f
> >>
> >> course, you won't satisfy everyone on the day.  I have to say that
> >> if you are going to have ten plus RHCE-wannabe's installing on
> >> machines that you use in production is most likely a bad idea.
> >> Even if everyone is careful, your odds of escaping unscathed seems
> >> low.
> >>
> >> >>--
> >>
> >> Scott Stancil
> >> sstancil@geekrooms.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
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