"joe golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm planning on teaching a short intro to perl unit in our middle school. > >I have one linux box running kernel 2.2.18pre21 on our windows NT 4.0 >ethernet connected network of 9 machines. telnet version is 0.16-4potato.1 >telnetd version is same > > >Is it feasible to have eight telnet sessions, one from each individual NT >workstation, into the one linbox? > >I think telnet is not the most elegant at timesharing with this type of >load. I'm not sure if it is designed for this (clunky) application.
ssh imposes a higher load than telnet with all the cryptography, and Linux systems with a hundred active ssh sessions perform quite acceptably. Your system won't even notice eight telnet sessions. Beyond that, it depends what sort of work your students will be doing, but I doubt an introduction to Perl will be a problem either. Note that the difference between eight open telnet sessions and eight open xterms is negligible. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
