From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Drew Leske Subject: Re: Login load balancing Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:36:47 -0700 Message-ID: <445260BF.5010406@uvic.ca> References: <444FAEFF.1040100@uvic.ca> <1146073387.24375.74.camel@sehe-c4.berlin.teles.de> <444FBBA7.2020501@uvic.ca> <20060427121619.3e2bf426.arnt@c2i.net> <445100BC.1080907@uvic.ca> <20060428120005.4d940e7b.arnt@c2i.net> <445244DD.8040100@uvic.ca> <20060428202356.5c09239b.arnt@c2i.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060428202356.5c09239b.arnt@c2i.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Arnt Karlsen Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand, but you seem to be suggesting a way by >> which I could use a console window in X. As a base case, I have to >> support somebody connecting with a vt100 and a 9600 baud modem. This >> solution needs to be completely independent of X. > > ..yup, and I was thinking of the various ttys, on which again you offer > a shell menu to choose from, instead of the usual shell prompt, any tty > (except mingetty or fgetty) should do this for you, a few quick ideas: > arnt@a45:~ $ apt-cache search tty |grep tty > [...] Okay, so what you're talking about now has nothing to do with sdm-terminal, and is just a script run when users log in to the director, which will give the user a menu and then shunt them off through ssh or some other means to one of the participating hosts. I wouldn't bother with the menu, though, because that defeats the 'load-balacing' part of it (unless I put the latest load figures in the menu and let the user choose). This solution requires login access to the director host. Not necessarily a show-stopper, but it's a drawback. Thanks for your input, Drew. -- Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria dleske@uvic.ca / +1250 472 5055 (office) / +1250 588 4311 (cel)