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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: FDDI availability
Summary: numbers, please.
Keywords: FDDI
Message-ID: <90009@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 18:50:54 GMT
References: <1991Mar08.161121.24600@srg.uucp> <1991Mar9.015811.26302@berlioz.nsc.com>
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In article <1991Mar9.015811.26302@berlioz.nsc.com>, my@falcon.nsc.com (Michael Yip) writes:
> > From: godbey@srg.uucp (Nick Godbey 301-266-4525 Home 301-268-8538)
> > ...	We would like to change our ethernet running tcp/ip over to FDDI and
> > get the 100 mb transfer rates I hear about.
> 
> NPI makes both AT and EISA boards for FDDI.  I know that they
> provide both Novell and PC-NFS drivers.  The phone number is
> (408) 954-8030.  I used the AT version but didn't try the EISA
> board.  The performance is OK ...


What number for what sort of traffic corresponds to "OK"?  What does ttcp
say?  Or another TCP/IP benchmark?  Or even FTP?  (which usually hits
bottlenecks other than network stuff)


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com