What are the hardware/software prerequisites for Rush?
There are some prerequisites for Rush, especially on Windows and Mac networks. Rush assumes there’s a professionally configured network; hostname/ip lookups all working, consistently configured user accounts, file servers for the common data with correctly configured access permissions. Some specifics: • Use DNS for hostname/ip lookups. (Static /etc/hosts are OK too.) Do /not/ use the Microsoft “WINS” or Apple “Rendezvous” defaults; these are ‘zero administration’ name lookup systems that are weak protocols, and not fault tolerant. Their biggest problem is being unable to do name lookups for machines that suddenly turned off, which will cause network wide problems during rendering. DNS does not have this problem. • Use static IP assignments for the machines, not DHCP. If you have to use DHCP, make sure the leases are set to never expire. • Make sure all machines can ‘ping’ each other by hostname. DNS will make this possible on all platforms. All machines must be able to lookup each oth
