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

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Anton Schegg schrieb:
> 
> 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

Well if you have several clients, and it's not a harddisk seek-time
problem (check that first), the problem might lie in collissions,
Wireless ethernet is a bit better at that, but worse on bandwidth. Maybe
you can try somekind of token ring.

Servus
  Casandro

> -----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)