Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:29:42PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> He's talking about for demo reasons. Now, I agree, in this day even  
> cheap switches are easily had. However, for demo purposes "Does it  
> work?" is enough. Unfortunately, as I said to him, I need mainboards  
> with IPMI capabilities.

There are a few cases where a hub would make things work while a switch
wouldn't (which is really a mistake in the setup, not the fault of the
switch), simply because the hub broadcasts everything, and the switch
only sends traffic where it should go.  This can make a difference to
VRRP for example if you set it up wrong.

> I've priced out what I need for my own training purposes, so it's just a  
> question of money before I can get it. I am also waiting until I've got  
> as many bugs squashed as I can in a fully virtualized environment. This  
> way, when I do invest in the hardware, it will be a relatively short (I  
> hope!) time before I can put it to use properly.

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