Re: [school-discuss] LTSP and school-provided networks on same physical infrastructure

[Daniel Howard <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the great advice Don and Stew.  First thing tomorrow, I'll 
categorize what we have now in terms of switches and cabling (whether it is 
Cat5e or just Cat5, in case we do end up buying some new switches) and see 
where we go from there to implement a VLAN solution as much as 
possible.  Stew, even if we do hire a tech expert to help us, it never 
hurts to do as much homework ahead of time as possible :-)

As an aside, I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for this group to come 
up with some sort of reference architecture for school networks that 
includes typical cases and variations so that the K12LTSP and Edubuntu 
folks can use it as a 'design to' for new features/capabilities in their 
software.  The folks we've talked to thus far have either set up K12LTSP 
servers in computer labs, or did the entire school with K12LTSP (like 
Riverdale).  I suspect that our case, of having to gradually infuse K12LTSP 
into the network, while maintaining existing PCs that require 
authentication, might be quite typical of schools wanting to do this, but 
who have hesitant district IT personnel to deal with.

Thanks again to all for a great resource,
Daniel


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