Advice on a good LTSP switch

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonathan at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 18 18:27:23 GMT 2008


Hi Jim

> As far as LTSP goes just make sure you have switches with GB uplinks and 100MB to the
> clients.  Run at least gigabit from the server to your switches and gigabit between the
> switches.  If you follow those rules any switch should work great.

In terms of connecting switches, I would rather recommend connecting 
each switch directly to the server. Network performance is much better 
if you add a network card for each switch, and just (software-)bridge 
the devices together.

-Jonathan



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