Xref: utzoo comp.sys.apple:13823 comp.sys.apollo:2857 comp.unix.aux:1023 comp.unix.questions:14221 comp.sys.mac:33296 comp.sys.dec:1384 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!heberlei From: heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.apollo,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Academic workstations -- Followups to comp.unix.questions ONLY Message-ID: <4624@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 12 Jun 89 15:45:57 GMT References: <507@lclark.UUCP> <32705@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) Distribution: usa Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 33 In article <32705@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: [stuff deleted] >However, I will agree that blaming it on the diskless workstations is >a wonderful alibi, the yokels believe you and rarely ask you to >actually do your job and find out what's really causing the problem. > >It's the diskless workstations, it's the diskless workstations (we >know those diskless workstation users will never buy the local disks >you recommend so it's a safe bet to blame it on them.) > [stuff deleted] >-- > -Barry Shein > >Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade >1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 I have been doing traffic analysis, and it is our diskless workstations which are pulling down our network. Our network throughput is starting to drop because of the high collision rate, BUT... I work in a reasearch environment (and the two other places that I have checked were research environments), so we have lots and lots of workstations with lots of users pushing the workstations pretty hard. If you have only a small isolated lab (or one connected to a larger network by a bridge (not simply a repeater)), diskless stations may be a better buy. (The poor poster who started this thread probably has given up on getting his original question answered) Todd Heberlein