Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > When 100 nodes all want to talk to the one bootserver then that one poor > port will be overflown. With switches you won't have collisions like in > the old days when they would combine exponentially but you still get > slowdowns.
Add more switches. Add more network cards to your boot-server. Add a second bootserver if necessary. Or just don't boot all machines at the same time (hint: that might also save your building's power supply...). -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b89429e.1090...@bzed.de
