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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet bridge recommendations?
Message-ID: <3769@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 89 12:46:19 GMT
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Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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 baw@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Brian Wolfe) writes:
>
>I have about $6000 (at most $8000) to bridge 3 standard ethernet subnets,
>so far the best deal I can find is on 2 of Retix' low-end bridges that
>are rated for 6000 'frames/second'... is that fast enough for joining segments
>that have about 10 hosts each?? 

	if the bridges can maintain 6k frames/sec steady state, then
	they should be plenty fast.  unfortunately, many bridge companies
	are playing bullshit specsmanship games.  example:  quoting
	"burst" performance numbers.  taken to the limit, one could quote
	infinite performance using this technique.  beware.

>Security is something of an issue since
>there is clinical data on some hosts and research data on others, so I would
>like some control over access. 

	i'm not sure what sorts of features Retix offers in this dept.
 


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