Is there interest in a talk on clustering?

[Dave Germiquet]

Has this talk happend?

I'd be interested in hearing it too.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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