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- login1.talapas.uoregon.edu
- login2.talapas.uoregon.edu
- login3.talapas.uoregon.edu
- login4.talapas.uoregon.edu
These hosts are entirely equivalent.
You can use whichever seems less busy, or use hostname talapas-login but the recommended method is by logging in via the load balancer:
login.talapas.uoregon.edu
to be sent to one randomlylogged into one of the four nodes with the least amount of traffic.
If you are logging in from a Linux or Mac OS X workstation, open a terminal and type
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