[Gllug] Playing with a deployment idea - PXE, bittorrent, remote location

[Peter Childs]

On 10/07/07, Alan Peery <peery at io.com> wrote:
>
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Alan Peery wrote:
> >
> >>     * Bittorrent style download of remainder of distribution, source
> >>
> >
> > Why bittorrent? If the server
> Because I have waved a magic wand and made the server in the branch
> disappear.  I am trying to get the benefits of a local cache without
> having a local server.  One way is to have the clients at the remote
> site act as bittorrent peers, so you end up having only (package bytes
> *1 + bittorrent control * N) bytes cross the WAN to get the package
> bytes to all clients.  A second benefit is having a local cache of
> packages that would generally survive any loss of a single machine.
>
> Now a WAN acceleration vendor like Riverbed would recommend dropping one
> of their boxes in the stream, but I am trying to keep as close to bare
> IP network pipe and clean Linux distribution as possible.
>
>
Are you basically suggesting using something like...

Debian Net install with a bittorrent package archive, or something more like
LTSP.
 I don't see why you should not adapt apt to work with bittorrent rather
than http, ftp, or cdrom which is already does.


Peter.
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