Re: Max Devices on ethernet adapters

I assume you are just spreading the terminals out among the
five switches more or less evenly ???

Pat,

What you are describing is actually rather common.  The high-volume printers
might be a little out of the ordinary.  What I would do with your
configuration is put a gigabit Ethernet card on the iSeries, five (or so)
switches with 100 meg ports.  Connect all switches and the server at gigabit
speeds.  That should handle everything you've described.  I would add a
second gigabit card to the iSeries and implement outbound load balancing,
but that would be more for redundancy than because the throughput could not
be handled.  Assuming that your pc's are using TN5250e the overall load
could be handled rather well.  If you put Domino on the iSeries or had a
requirement for frequent large file transfers, then the second card might be
required for throughput.

This is just an off-the-cuff estimate based upon what I've seen of similar
installations.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

I make it easy...(810  with 100 devices 80 pc's 20 printers
all ethernet attached. All in the same building. To make it
interesting, 5 of the printers are 1000lpm and are used 70%
of the day.