Re: Max Devices on ethernet adapters

It's not so brave anymore.  Op's Console's been out for a few years now 
and most of the bugs are worked out.  We have it on the controlling 
partition for our largest 9406.  We even upgraded the PC from W2K to XP 
and it worked without a single hitch.  Even been through a few IPL's since 
then.  Yes, it does rather boggle the mind how you can bring the system 
into a restricted state and it still continues to communicate.  But of 
course, IBM would have had to have that figured out from day 1.

And partitioning is so cool.  When one of the partitions automatically 
IPLed (small partition, ptf's alone filled the disk), I got into the 
controlling partition from home and watched the IPL status SRC codes and 
knew when the IPL was done.

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Let's just talk "local" for the moment.
(remote is another story)

Twinax has it's own processor at the "other end"..
Ethernet does not....the user manages everything.

OK, a 100mb switch but what is a 1gb "uplink" between
switches.

You are very brave to not have a twinax console....







Larry Bolhuis wrote:

> Pat,

> In all my time watching networks, especially iSeries I have almost never 

> seen an overloaded 100Mb ethernet card. 10Mb sure, especially that FC 
> #2617 abomination for SPD systems.  What appears as overloaded nearly 
> always is mis-configured.
> 
> We deal primarly with small shops. The 'typical LAN' for these shops is 
> 100Mb switches with 1Gb uplinks between switches. Most don't have 
> mangement, most DO place UPSs or at the very least Surge supressors on 
> each Switch.  About 1/3 have redundant power for their switches. This 
> sort of configuration can typically support a couple hundred average 
> users with little trouble.  Most of my customers have virtually zero 
> problems with their networks and those are usually UTS errors.
> 
> We haven't sold or installed any new Twinax in years. Several shops I 
> work in still have it, primarily for shop terminals and printers. Many 
> of those don't actually have Twinax either, they use Baluns to run it 
> over Cat5.


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