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

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even so, it's still only equal to 10 10/100 nics, which is
not that much, depending on the size of the farm you're
comparing it too.

Brad

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:49:38 -0500
 "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com> wrote:
> Isn't there gigabit NICs for the AS400? Then your
> bandwidth issue is a
> non-issue (10 times faster than 100 megabit). Besides,
> IIRC, a standard T-1
> connection to the internet is only 1.5 megabit you would
> never use the whole
> bandwidth of the NIC.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:31 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400
> as a Web serving
> platform)
>
>
> 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
>
>
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