Re: Idea for simple LTSP cluster out of the box

[Philipp Hübner <debalance@debian.org>]

Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb:
> If I am not mistaken, ldm support multiple servers listed in its
> LDM_SERVER configuration variable.  We could use this to provide a
> LTSP cluster solution out of the box with a trivial change to the
> current configuration.
>
> All LTSP servers on the network are expected to be a member of the
> ltsp-server netgroup in LDAP.  If this is the case, we can fill the
> LDM_SERVER variable at run time with the content from this netgroup,
> and LDM will then pick the first server in the list.  If we make sure
> to randomize the list or order it based on load or something like
> that, we would have a load balancing LTSP cluster out of the box.
>
> I was floating this idea some years ago in
> <URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2007/10/msg00172.html >.
> Perhaps time to make this a default feature?

But that would only work out of the box in the 10.0.2.0/23 net for now, 
right?

And the result would be that the nfs chroot is taken from one server, 
and ldm would connect to another?

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