RE: Advantages of Multiple NIC cards in AS/400

[weaver_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Bob,

We also have multiple NIC's (3) on our AS400.  We recently upgraded from
CISC to RISC.  The new box had a 10/100 built in and we had previously two
10/10's.  Our plan was to move everything to the 10/100, but found that
isolating our network printers on the 10/10's helps throughput and also
isolates our printer problems within the network and coming through the
Firewall.

Every little bit helps.

:} Melenie Weaver
melenew@dscntexchange.citrus.k12.fl.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry D. Bolhuis [mailto:lbolhui@ibm.net]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 1999 7:13 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Advantages of Multiple NIC cards in AS/400


Bob,

 The majority of the systems we install these days are dual homed. We base
this on the following
advantages: 1) Additional Capacity, 2) Redundancy in case of failure (Of the
cable, the Card, the
TCP/IP stack.  The newer cards are cheap enough that this is usually a good
enough argument.

 As to load balancing we have done some of this manually but have not looked
into any automatic
process.

 - Larry

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Bob Larkin wrote:
>
> Greetings,
> What would be the advantages/disadvantages of using multiple Network
> Adapter cards in the AS/400 in an Ethernet (TCP/IP) environment?
>
> A client is using a C/S application that stores large binary files on
> the AS/400. There is concern of overloading the Adapter card as the
> usage of the application increases. We are wondering if anyone has used
> multiple cards, and how to "dynamically" balance the load? The AS/400
> has plenty of capacity (average 30% CPU utilization), there is just this
> mnagging concenr about the traffic load.
>
> Any thoughts or comments?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob
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