Xref: utzoo comp.sys.pyramid:157 comp.dcom.lans:1275 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid,comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Advice Wanted on File Servers for a Diskless Network Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 88 15:13:21 GMT References: <13504@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting Lines: 9 I see no reason why you will not be able to use the SUN4 as a server, but I'm not sure it will get you anything. I'm not sure the I/O bandwidth on a Sun 4 is going to be sufficiently better. BRL runs their SUN network with next to no SUN servers on it. Using some Gould PN systems with Chris Torek's ND code for the root/swap and the Gould provided NFS for everything else works well. Of course, the code had to be throttled back as the Gould Ethernet interfaces will outdrive the poor Suns. -Ron