[K12OSN] Re: [Etherboot-users] Switch question (re-sent)
Stephen Liu (satimis@writeme.com)
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 10:07:24 +0800
Hi Donald,
Lot of thanks for your meticulous effort in advising me as well to other
guys who have given me a hand.
Yes. This is only a small scale lab test to experiment the Terminal
Server. My reason for considering bandwith management is to have a touch
on this technology.
Anyway I shall make another search on Internet. If you have anything to
add, you are mostly welcome
Thanks
Stephen
At 10:03 AM 6/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I was mostly kidding. For a full lab deployment, Cisco switches might
>make some sense, but for a small-scale test, any of the SMC, D-Link,
>Linksys, etc solutions (for under $100) would do everything you need.
>
>It isn't clear from your question if your server is acting as the
>firewall (has two NICs). If it is, then you don't need a broadband
>router/switch combo, you can just get a less expensive simple layer 2
>unmanaged switch. For that matter, you could get a dirt cheap eight
>port hub which would be fine for a small number of clients.
>
>By the way, I think K12LTSP is intended to be used on servers with
>two NICs, one for the clients and one to connect to the "network"
>(either intranet or internet.)
>
>-Don
>
>Stephen Liu wrote:
> >
> > Hi Don,
> >
> > Cisco is good and reliable but its price is also good. Anyway I will make
> > a search.
> >
> > Thanks for your information.
> >
> > Stephen
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