Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!udel!nigel.ee.udel.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Networking RS/6000's ? Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 22:27:00 GMT References: <347@gandp> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: College of Marine Studies, U. Del. Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: perelandra.cms.udel.edu In-reply-to: rg@gandp's message of 20 Mar 91 15:10:44 GMT >>>>> On 20 Mar 91 15:10:44 GMT, rg@gandp (Dick Gill) said: Dick> [we] are proposing a Model 320H to an existing client;[...] he Dick> wants to make _SURE_ that, as his needs grow, he can add a Dick> second (and third) system and have them networked in a way that Dick> directories can be shared among users on all systems (there may Dick> also be a more minor need to log on to another system). Dick> I assume that the means to achieve this is NFS running on TCP/IP Dick> over Ethernet, Yes. Dick> Now the question. Is this a relatively simple and Dick> straightforward thing to do? Does it _REALLLY_ work reliably? Yes and yes. Dick> Practiccally, how many RS/6000's can be networked in this Dick> manner? How much support complication is introduced by the Dick> network? There should not be any trouble or performance degradation with up to a dozen or more hosts. Of course it depends on how much you data you are actually pumping across the ethernet in the transfers between machines.... -- John D. McCalpin mccalpin@perelandra.cms.udel.edu Assistant Professor mccalpin@brahms.udel.edu College of Marine Studies, U. Del. J.MCCALPIN/OMNET