From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 02:16:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA13069 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13060 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA01689; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:15:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: Ken Hansen cc: Christoph Kukulies , Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: diskless 100 Mbit - IntelEtherexpress - Q In-Reply-To: <342BE6B3.27A5@njcc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here is my two cents --- when you have users that decide to suddenly cycle the power anything with moving parts is in danger. I prefer the solution of 100 base T cards and running of boot eprom w large amounts of memory on the workstations (64MB - 128MB) this certainly has to be better than any harddrive as it is pretty hard to destroy and I can swap out a machine simply by moving in anothet cpu cabinet, and changing the MAC address in the bootptab it is seamless. > > BTW I believe Sun has droped support for true diskless workstations, > in stead they have CacheFS clients, where the machine boots off the > server, but keeps a cache of NFS files accessed on a local HD - that > drive is cleared on reboot. > > Just wnated to throw in my .02 worth. > > Ken > khansen@njcc.com >