NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform)

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

I don't know if this was looked at yet, but if performance
is an issue, I can bet you have a huge bottleneck in the
AS/400 NIC itself.

With 10 NT servers, you have 10 NICs.  With an AS/400, you
have one.  That's a lot more load that can go in an out on
the NTs.

Sure, it's great to assign multiple IPs to an AS/400 NIC,
but that doesn't do you any good when you start doing a lot
of business on the web.

If IBM would let us install NICs at will (the $15 ones from
Circuit City, not the $500 ones from them) then great!  But
that's going to bite the iSeries in the bum.. and it's so
often overlooked as part of the e-Commerce plan.  It's
assumed that the AS/400 can take the traffic (cuz it rulz),
but it can't.  It's still just a 10/100 NIC just like in
your PC.

Brad