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Subject: DELNI Bottle Neck
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Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 14:12:28 EST
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	I realize that this question may not be exactly right for this
group, but I think that there may have been discussion on this issue in the
past -- and I need to be updated.

	Currently we run a many workstation (300+?) and central fileservers
(14) on a single ethernet (right now we can't change this basic configuration).
My question revolves around the fileserver connection to the network.
Currently we have 14 drop cables going into 2 DELNI's.  The question I have
is if I tap the fileservers directly onto the ethernet, not using the DELNI's
would I gain in performance?  Do DELNI's get overloaded?  Do they cause
increases in network overhead?  Any help in this direction would be most
helpful, especially if you have had large amounts of data passing through
a DELNI.

Please send mail to cy13@te.cc.cmu.edu, and I will post a summary.

Thank you very much,

Curt Yeske
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