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From: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV (Roger Fajman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re:  SLIP on STS-10X terminal servers
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Date: 16 Apr 91 00:36:24 GMT
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> While some TS vendors advertise the ability to operate all lines at
> max speed in both directions concurrently, what this generally means
> is that they are vastly over-engineered for the normal operating point
> of a terminal server...
>
> Bill Westfield
> cisco Systems.
> -------

It isn't that the cisco terminal servers can't support all lines
running at max speed that really bothers me, it's that they will simply
drop data if they reach saturation, rather than just slowing down.
Since I don't know in advance exactly what my users will be doing, it's
difficult to be sure that my configuration won't saturate.  Since the
penalty is so severe for overloading the box, I will have to
over-design the configuration anyway.