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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet performance degradation?
Summary: Naw....
Keywords: PC, NFS, Novell, Netware, DOS
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.193605.7518@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 91 19:36:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.220351.9761@uhura1.uucp> <1991Mar7.221028.9883@uhura1.uucp>
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In article <1991Mar7.221028.9883@uhura1.uucp> bryan@uhura1.UUCP (Bryan Curnutt) writes:
>I've also heard (though I don't know how true it is) that Ethernet
>network performance degrades drastically if too many nodes are added
>to the network, and that the number of nodes to do this is relatively
>small.  Is there any truth to this?
>-- 
>Bryan Curnutt            bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net

Oh, I don't know about that.

Does 300 nodes count, spread between two buildings? :-)

If you route or bridge packets intelligently, you can do much better.

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