[K12OSN] Re: Networking a new school for K12LTSP?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 1/29/07, Joseph Bishay <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I hope you are doing well.
>>
>> Thank you all for the comprehensive reply!
>>
>> Once I started reading your email, I realized that probably the best
>> way to proceed was to work with the idea of NIC Bonding or port
>> trunking.  I have a surplus of Gigabit cards so I could put 3 in a
>> server (reading online I found that more than 3 wasn't going to give
>> enough of an improvement due to the PCI bus limitations -- can anyone
>> validate this?) and then send all 3 of those to the switch. I could
>> then bond 3 ports from that switch to the next one (we'll probably
>> have 2 x48 gigabit switches for the whole building -- still counting
>> the number of ports/computers required) so as to deal with the
>> bandwidth.  The cost of some of those fiber <-> copper converts look
>> rather daunting.
>>
>> I would VERY MUCH prefer to use only 1 server for the entire building
>> -- I am still very much a novice at this and the complexities of
>> setting up multiple servers or splitting into application & /home with
>> LAPD sounds rather daunting.
>>
>
> If your still set on one server also have a look at this
> http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Technical:Subnetting
> Instead of port trunking I think this would be a better idea.
> Especially if you are going to have 2 48 port switches that could be
> on different gigabit linked subnets.

Hmm...I hadn't thought of that particular application myself--addressing
bandwidth bottlenecks--but you're right, that sure would do it!  That
never even occurred to me...thanks!

--TP