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- From: luik@isa.de (Andreas Luik)
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- Subject: using SPARCstation IPC as gateway?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.220256.2250@isa.de>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 23:02:49 GMT
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- As the traffic on our ethernet is getting more, I decided to split our
- net. I have the following possibilities:
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- 1. Use a bridge (costs app. DM 5000,--)
- 2. Add a second ethernet card to a SPARCstation IPC and use it as a
- gateway (costs app. DM 800,--)
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- The traffic between the two nets will be NNTP (newsreaders), XNTP,
- X-protocol and some NFS traffic (no diskless clients).
-
- Using a SPARC as a gateway would be much cheaper, but:
-
- - will the throughput suffer? Is a bridge much faster than a gateway?
- How much?
-
- - will the performance of the SPARCstation IPC suffer? It should be usable
- by at least 2 or three users (app. 10 windows) and has to exports some
- NFS directories, too. Currently this works well.
-
- Please reply by e-mail, I will summarize.
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