[mythtv-users] Diskless

[Rich West]

Trey Thompson wrote:
> One thing to consider, an option I've used in commercial applications
> many times, is to not use a hub/switch between the Front Ends and Back
> End for the main streaming.  This could be difficult if you're doing
> any storage on the Front Ends (slave backend), but if you're not, it
> should work great.
>
> You could get something like a 4 port PCI NIC card, and then have a
> direct CAT5 run to each of the Diskless Frontends.
>
> That would sure give you MORE than enough bandwidth to do whatever you wanted.
>
> Then, you could even use normal NICs in the frontends for Internet,
> whatever, and keep one in the FE dedicated to the backend.  Never have
> that traffic hit your "LAN".
>
> But, obviously, this is overkill unless you've got something like 5 HD
> front ends, and a busy network.

Well.. I had actually considered that since I do have a couple of quad
cards hanging around doing nothing.  The temptation is definitely there
to have a separate network just for the mythtv boxes.. but, I think you
are right, for a home environment it would be overkill.

-Rich