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From: elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Kinetic reliability survey
Message-ID: <681@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 23:02:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 23:02:11 1987
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At the moment, news is more reliable than mail around here, so excuse
the posting.

jim@b-mrda writes:
    I would like to find out from owners of Kinetics Fastpaths, of all
    types, what kind of reliabilty that they have experienced.  I'm 
    especially interested in sites that have multipule Kinetics gateways.
    The type of info I'd like is listed below.
    If there are enough responses and/or requests I'll summerize to the net.

    [...]

    ##########################  cut here ##################################
    
    Fastpath model			:

20 KFPS/2's (rough count) currently installed
    
    Thick or thin LAN		:

Thick, plus fiber optic (via Hirschman transceivers)
    
    What gateway code do you use
    name, version and date		:

19 Combined Gateway Beta C0X9: July 9, 1987
1 KIP 9/87
    
    Number of nodes per zone	:

170+
    
    Number of zones			:

1
    
    Estimated number of hours,
    days, weeks, etc. between 
    failures ( a failure is 
    anytime the gateway needs 
    to have power cycled or 
    gateway code reloaded or 
    reset)				:

Execept for the one on my desk (every 2-3 days), only when we have
power line problems (once every couple of months).
    
    Serial number of gateways	:

5xx-6xx (I'd rather not have to run around and look them all up).
    
    Other comments			:

We love them.

-- 
Clayton M. Elwell

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