Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!sunfs3!kent
From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: EtherTalk Limits
Summary: With Phase II, how many nodes are practical?
Keywords: EtherTalk routing phase II capacity
Message-ID: <676@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 5 Apr 90 16:23:10 GMT
Reply-To: kent@camex.com (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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Has anybody out there built any big Phase II networks yet?  How many
EtherTalk nodes did you put on a single Ethernet?  What were they
doing?  How was performance?  Did you use any EtherTalk-to-EtherTalk
routers?  How?  Which?  Did they work well?

What I am looking for is an intuitive sense of when EtherTalk-to-
EtherTalk routing is necessary.  I think I have a pretty good sense
for the capacity of LocalTalk, but nearly none for EtherTalk.

I would love to hear some stories.

Thanks.

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