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- From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163048.271@indyvax.iupui.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:30:48 -0500
- References: <728078512.AA00323@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org>
- Organization: Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
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- In article <728078512.AA00323@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org>, tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston) writes:
- > > Considering that the specified limit for a thin
- > > segement is 185 meters,
- > > I doubt that any of us want to. We've got a total of
- > > about 4,000 feet of
- > > thin coax bridged via NetWare servers and dedicated
- > > bridges (PCBridge),
- > > and I've strained mightily to keep each segement under
- > > the limit. Oddly
- > > enough, my network is quite reliable. How's yours?
- >
- > Alright .. it's quite fast (90% of top speed), but you guessed it, we get drop outs (lost workstation connections) about once a week. :-)
- >
- > > (Oh, BTW; I've heard of a thin LAN that had over 1.2KM
- > > of cable, but for
- > > *some* reason, performance wasn't real good....)
- >
- > Yeah, funny that!
- >
- > Cheers, Ben
-
- Stretching network construction guidelines is penny-wise and pound-foolish
- IMHO. Individual components are assumed to be manufactured to perform within
- a specified range of tolerances. A certain set of rules (hopefully simple)
- is assumed to hold for how the system as a whole is put together. Given these
- assumptions, certain useful statements can then be made about the performance
- of the resulting system. The idea is that the end user is not required to
- perform or understand the analysis of the entire system, but only to use
- standardized components and follow some basic rules. Many engineered systems
- are designed this way, not just LANs.
-
- Basically, the end user buys a cookbook approach to setting up the LAN in
- return for a very small tradeoff in hardware costs.
-
- Sure, in a particular set of circumstances you might be able to "get away"
- with something, but if you add another station or replace some equipment and
- and it blows up in your face, you really have no one but yourself to blame.
- --
- James Harvey IUPUI/OIT Technical Support/VMS & Networks
- harvey@iupui.edu uucp:iugate!harvey bitnet:harvey@indyvax
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