From owner-freebsd-small Sat Oct 2 12:51:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F404214FD3 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07498; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:51:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199910021951.MAA07498@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Help... heh. In-Reply-To: <37F5B124.2446D85B@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Oct 2, 99 04:15:48 pm" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 12:51:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: jeff@dcnv.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jeff Harris wrote: >> The machines in question are big pIII/500's with 1gig+ of ram each, >> 100mbit ethernet, etc. They're fast. My question is, where do I >> start looking for info. I've seen lots of diskless stuff (well, >> okay, a few things) but these machines aren't totally diskless. They >> at least have a floppy. > > If you make them diskless, you won't have trouble in case of the > machines reboot for whatever reasons, no bad floppy problem, and > maybe faster reboots. Better yet, changing the configuration is > easier. So... why not? Does anyone here know how Yahoo! flys their armada of PCs? They've probably solved a lot of these issues already. But given the stated application (Apache web service) on identically configured machines, it sounds like diskless would be the way to go. Pick an Ethernet card that supports the diskless boot. You'll want NIC/NFS/DHCP up on a redundant pair of master servers. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message