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From: krowitz@mit-richter.UUCP (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Native ethernet for Apollos
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Date: 26 Feb 88 18:33:28 GMT
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We have our Apollos on a ringnet which is gatewayed into our departmental
ethernet. While this does slowdown the communication rates between machines
on the ringnet and machines on the ethernet due to the hop through the 
gateway, it's not really noticable in many cases (ie. running TELNET).
There are some advantages to this configuration. There are a bunch of diskless
Suns on the departmental ethernet. When a few of them start page thrashing,
the ethernet gets pretty bogged down. Sometimes it get completely jammed
and we can't connect to any of the machines on the ethernet. The machines on
the Domain ringnet are completely unaffected since the gateway isolates us
from the problems on the departmental ethernet. If the ethernet were completely
under our control this wouldn't be a problem, but since we have to wait to
have someone else fix any problems on the ethernet having the gateway is
a *great* blessing.


 -- David Krowitz

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