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Re: bandwidth throttling LTSP machines.



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On 07-10-2004 10:03, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, Herman Robak wrote:
|
|
|> Beware!  Not requiring decent hardware almost encourages
|>the use of crappy hardware, which will cause a lot of grief,
|>and be a great time sink.  Such time sinks tend to cost more
|>than the money saved at the time of purchase.
|
|
| Fair enough.  I withdraw point #2 below.  However, I think #1 is still a
| priority for Skolelinux/debian-edu.
|
| On Thu, 07 Oct 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
|
|
|>1. the functionality will just be there
|>   (a switch would need specialist configuration which we couldn't
document)
|>2. it would always work even if all one can afford is a cheap hub.

Well, it works, even if not encouraged.

Why not simply change #2 to not advertise cheap hardware:

2. it would work (although not recommended!) also with a cheap hub.


~ - Jonas

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