[vdr] Re: AW: VDR-Network-Traffic-Managment

[Anton Schegg <anton.schegg@ixos.de>]

What about adding additional network cards (100MB/s) into your file server?
Each of your clients is then connected directly to the file server (which
also then routes the traffic).

Anton

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bläser, Lars" [mailto:LBlaeser@hofheim.de] 
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:21 PM
To: 'vdr@linuxtv.org'
Subject: [vdr] AW: VDR-Network-Traffic-Managment


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Axel Gruber [mailto:axelgruber3@gmx.de]
> Gesendet am: Montag, 17. Juni 2002 13:44
> An: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Betreff: [vdr] VDR-Network-Traffic-Managment
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Here i use a small VDR-network with one "main-machine" (4
> DVB-Devices) and 8 Harddrives.
> 2 Clients with only 1 DVB-Device and mounted the Harddrives 
> from the Main-Machine.
> 
> Everything works fine.
> 
> Now i want to expand the harddrivespace and connect a
> aditional Server to this Network.
> 
> But now i get problems.
> 
> VDR allways use the /video device wich has the highes space
> on it. - so if i connect
> the Server to the network (for example as /video9) all Vdr´s 
> only record to this device.
> 
> If i only record 1 or 2 Streams at the same time there is  no
> problem - but if i
> (and my Brother) watch over the Clients (over the LAN) and 
> the main-Machine want to
> record over the Network i get Problems because the netowrk 
> ist too slow.
> 
> Is there any way to tell VDR that he only shuld use a
> specifyed number of recordings over
> the network ?  
> 
> 
> I know this is a realy specific problem - but i don´t have a
> solution for it !

mmhhh, money does not seems to be a problem - so what about
Cu-Gigabit-Ethernet, I´ve seen a switch with 2 x 1000/100/10 and 8 x 100/10
for 219,00 EUR and a 1000/100/10 PCI-Card 79,00 EUR (with heatsink, running
realy hot), or best a full 8 Port Giga Switch :-)

i does not know about the switch but the PCI cards working well, i´ve
connected my linux and  windows with a cross-cable and get 11MByte/s with
Samba, thats ok for transfering films from one computer to another (for me
postprocess is on windows with a hardwaretranscoder from Vidac)