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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!hebron!eskimo!nanook
- From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
- Subject: Re: Sun is violating the Ethernet-Spec with its
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.062513.14177@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Summary: Me Too..
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- References: <1992Nov2.230122.6670@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Nov4.165432.4917@news.duc.auburn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:25:13 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Nov4.165432.4917@news.duc.auburn.edu>, elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling) writes:
- > In article 6670@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE, bartel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Elmar Bartel) writes:
- > >
- > >Hi folks,
- > >This are bad news.
- > >
- > >If you happen to administer a network with more then 30 or 50
- > >suns (ie SparcI, SLC) on one ethernet segment, you will probably
- > >observe an abnormal high collision rate.
- > [description deleted]
- >
- > I run several networks this size and don't see significant collision
- > rates. Since Elmar doesn't describe the physical implementation of
- > his ethernet, his detailed description doesn't really help describe
- > the problem. It may also lead to widespread panic and unwarranted
- > finger pointing.
-
- I've got a network with 150 workstations to 7 physical segments. I put
- the perfmeter up on collisions and never saw a bump. Don't know if the
- perfmeter is working, but if it is this doesn't seem to be a huge problem.
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