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Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Earl D. Baugh Jr.
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Two Gigabit ethernet questions....
Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across twisted pair? I've done some Googling and see ones that look like fiber based, but haven't seen any that look like they support twisted pair... (I've got a couple SS10's and was wondering if there is anyway to get them talking Gigabit... (I don't have fiber, just the twisted pair..) Second, if I were looking for some relatively inexpensive Gigabit cards for my Sun 420R/220R, what card should I be looking for? I'm looking for the same as above, twisted pair based, and only need a single interface for each machine. It looks like the Sun GigaSwith cards might be the right ones... I see some on EPay that look pretty inexpensive (pulls from Ultra 10 boxes). If anybody on the list has any they're willing to part with, let me know... Otherwise I'll probably go the EPay route. Thanks. Earl _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Tom "spot" Callaway
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote:
> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... > > Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across > twisted pair? Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s (64 bit bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? ~spot _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Joshua Boyd
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: >> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... >> >> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across >> twisted pair? > > Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s (64 bit > bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 times the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? Why is that silly then? _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Tom "spot" Callaway
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:37 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: > >> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... > >> > >> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across > >> twisted pair? > > > > Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s (64 bit > > bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? > > So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 times > the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? Why is > that silly then? Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. ~spot _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Steve Sandau
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:37 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: >> On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: >>>> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... >>>> >>>> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across >>>> twisted pair? >>> Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s (64 bit >>> bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? >> So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 times >> the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? Why is >> that silly then? > > Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. > I would hope that gigE would max out at more like 500MB/s, but I have not worked with gigE and jumbo frames enough to know. 100MB ethernet maxes out at what, 70MB/s or 80MB/s under ideal conditions, or is that even too optimistic? In any case, there *are* gigE SBUS cards, I have a fiber one (which I am not using, hint, hint). Steve _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Joshua Boyd
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 6, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Steve Sandau wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:37 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: >>> On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: >>>>> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... >>>>> >>>>> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across >>>>> twisted pair? >>>> Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s >>>> (64 bit >>>> bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? >>> So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 >>> times the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? >>> Why is that silly then? >> Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. > > I would hope that gigE would max out at more like 500MB/s, but I > have not worked with gigE and jumbo frames enough to know. GigE is supposedly capable of going close to 100 MB/s a second, with jumbo frames. > 100MB ethernet maxes out at what, 70MB/s or 80MB/s under ideal > conditions, or is that even too optimistic? Typically one uses MB for megabyte, and Mb for megabit. FastE is 100Mb, but in average circumstances in the real world it only does about 7.5-9MB. GigE is 1000Mb, and is rumoured to be capable of doing 80MB+, but that requires fairly good hardware. Some people say that it isn't worth upgrading to GigE if you can't get 10 times faster than FastE, but I wonder why people think that a 4-6x upgrade for older machines isn't worthwhile? _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Steve Sandau
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>>> Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. >> >> I would hope that gigE would max out at more like 500MB/s, but I have >> not worked with gigE and jumbo frames enough to know. > > GigE is supposedly capable of going close to 100 MB/s a second, with > jumbo frames. > >> 100MB ethernet maxes out at what, 70MB/s or 80MB/s under ideal >> conditions, or is that even too optimistic? > > Typically one uses MB for megabyte, and Mb for megabit. > > FastE is 100Mb, but in average circumstances in the real world it only > does about 7.5-9MB. > > GigE is 1000Mb, and is rumoured to be capable of doing 80MB+, but that > requires fairly good hardware. > > Some people say that it isn't worth upgrading to GigE if you can't get > 10 times faster than FastE, but I wonder why people think that a 4-6x > upgrade for older machines isn't worthwhile? Ah, I was not paying enough attention to Mb vs MB. I did mean megabits in my statements, and typed MB without thinking. That was a kind way of correcting me, though. ;-) Mostly, I was thinking that you should be able to get the same percentage of ideal bandwidth from GigE (with jumbo frames) as from FastE. It sounds like that is the case, but only under the best circumstances. Correct? And if SBUS maxes out at 200 megabytes, that is 1.6 gigabits, and a GigE card should certainly be able to move data across the SBUS as fast as across the network. As I mentioned before, I have a fiber GigE SBUS card for COS if anyone is interested. Steve _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Mark Brown-9
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > > I dont' want them, but I am curious what it would take to make use of them - obviouosly cards & fiber cables, but it a switch needed? some other technology? and how are the cards configured - is it like an Ethernet connection to the software, it just travels over different media? > > The minimum config is 2 cross connected fibre gig cards of the same optical wavelength, cross connected. (sans switch) I had a private GE interconnect between my E3000 and E4500, and a public facing GE to my core network from each of those as well. /M _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Phil Stracchino-3
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Steve Sandau wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:37 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: >>> On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >>>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: >>>>> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... >>>>> >>>>> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran across >>>>> twisted pair? >>>> Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s (64 bit >>>> bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? >>> So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 times >>> the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? Why is >>> that silly then? >> >> Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. >> > > I would hope that gigE would max out at more like 500MB/s, but I have > not worked with gigE and jumbo frames enough to know. > > 100MB ethernet maxes out at what, 70MB/s or 80MB/s under ideal > conditions, or is that even too optimistic? It's megabits, remember, not megabytes. I have gotten an honest 97Mbit/s data rate across my local 100Mbit network. That's about 12 MB/s. If GigE can manage 900Mbit/s actual throughput, that's 112MB/s. So if SBUS tops out at 200MB/s, it should take GigE traffic just fine. If that's 200Mbit/s, then GigE on SBUS isn't going to work too well. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 alaric@... alaric@... phil@... Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Jonathan Katz-2
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> It's megabits, remember, not megabytes. > > I have gotten an honest 97Mbit/s data rate across my local 100Mbit > network. That's about 12 MB/s. If GigE can manage 900Mbit/s > actual throughput, that's 112MB/s. So if SBUS tops out at 200MB/s, > it should take GigE traffic just fine. If that's 200Mbit/s, then > GigE on SBUS isn't going to work too well. :) I feel like a broken record. I know I've posted this story 2x before :D Back in 1997 I was a contractor at Alteon networks. We had Tatung Ultra 2 clones with the 336Mhz(?) CPUs in them. They were sbus systems. With the sbus gigabit cards using 8k frames (jumbo frames) and ttcp we could hard-lock the systems and managed to get 800Mbits of throughput. This was back in the Solaris 2.5.1 days with 32bit kernels, too, and rev 1.x drivers. Other caveats at the time were that you wanted at least two CPUs in the system because one would be busy managing the network traffic, even though it would work fine with one CPU. With those memories fondly in the back of my brain I'm thinking we could easily hit 900Mbits or greater with our more refined OSes and drivers (and more typical network traffic than ttcp blasting) and still have a very functional system. -Jon _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Joshua Boyd
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 6, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> It's megabits, remember, not megabytes. >> >> I have gotten an honest 97Mbit/s data rate across my local 100Mbit >> network. That's about 12 MB/s. If GigE can manage 900Mbit/s >> actual throughput, that's 112MB/s. So if SBUS tops out at 200MB/ >> s, it should take GigE traffic just fine. If that's 200Mbit/s, >> then GigE on SBUS isn't going to work too well. :) > > I feel like a broken record. I know I've posted this story 2x > before :D > > Back in 1997 I was a contractor at Alteon networks. We had Tatung > Ultra 2 clones with the 336Mhz(?) CPUs in them. They were sbus > systems. With the sbus gigabit cards using 8k frames (jumbo frames) > and ttcp we could hard-lock the systems and managed to get 800Mbits > of throughput. This was back in the Solaris 2.5.1 days with 32bit > kernels, too, and rev 1.x drivers. What did you get in real usage outside of a benchmarking program though? _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Jonathan Katz-2
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote: >> Back in 1997 I was a contractor at Alteon networks. We had Tatung >> Ultra 2 clones with the 336Mhz(?) CPUs in them. > What did you get in real usage outside of a benchmarking program > though? At the time the major server OSes were NT4, Solaris 2.5.1 and such... I think we typically saw 300Mbits sustained. -Jon _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Shannon Hendrix
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:46 , Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Steve Sandau wrote: >> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:37 -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: >>>> On Apr 5, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 23:03 -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote: >>>>>> Two Gigabit ethernet questions.... >>>>>> >>>>>> Did anybody ever make a Gigabit ethernet SBus card that ran >>>>>> across >>>>>> twisted pair? >>>>> Wouldn't that be a bit silly, since SBUS maxes out at 200 MB/s >>>>> (64 bit >>>>> bus)? Or is it bridging to PCI to get around that somehow? >>>> So, basically, you are pointing out that SBUS can do about 2.5 >>>> times the bandwidth that one would realistically get from GigE? >>>> Why is that silly then? >>> >>> Ehh, I suppose. I was thinking 1000 MB/s, but that's not realistic. >>> >> I would hope that gigE would max out at more like 500MB/s, but I >> have not worked with gigE and jumbo frames enough to know. >> 100MB ethernet maxes out at what, 70MB/s or 80MB/s under ideal >> conditions, or is that even too optimistic? > > It's megabits, remember, not megabytes. > > I have gotten an honest 97Mbit/s data rate across my local 100Mbit > network. That's about 12 MB/s. If GigE can manage 900Mbit/s actual > throughput, that's 112MB/s. So if SBUS tops out at 200MB/s, it > should take GigE traffic just fine. If that's 200Mbit/s, then GigE > on SBUS isn't going to work too well. :) On my gigabit LAN, I seem to max out usually around 20MBytes/sec. That's going from a Mac Pro to a Dell T105. Neither of them is using enough CPU to even show up during a transfer, so I'm not sure why I can't get better. Of course, my NAS box maxes out at less than that, around 14MBytes/ sec, but it has a tiny 200MHz embedded CPU. Seems to me CPU isn't the issue, nor should the bus be an issue with my Mac and my Dell, both of which have gigE on PCI Express. My switch is an HP 1800 24-port, which is supposed to have 48Gbit/sec of bandwidth. -- Shannon Hendrix shannon@... _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Sridhar Ayengar
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On my gigabit LAN, I seem to max out usually around 20MBytes/sec. > > That's going from a Mac Pro to a Dell T105. > > Neither of them is using enough CPU to even show up during a transfer, > so I'm not sure why I can't get better. > > Of course, my NAS box maxes out at less than that, around 14MBytes/sec, > but it has a tiny 200MHz embedded CPU. > > Seems to me CPU isn't the issue, nor should the bus be an issue with my > Mac and my Dell, both of which have gigE on PCI Express. > > My switch is an HP 1800 24-port, which is supposed to have 48Gbit/sec of > bandwidth. I get the same kind of numbers on the same model switch. Maybe the switch just sucks. I should check if there's a firmware upgrade available for it. Peace... Sridhar _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Michael-John Turner-2
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:02:21AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Neither of them is using enough CPU to even show up during a transfer, so > I'm not sure why I can't get better. You should be able to get better performance if you enable jumbo frames - doing so does require all machines connected to the switch or on the same VLAN to have them enabled though. -mj -- Michael-John Turner mj@... | http://mjturner.net/ _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220RReply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Jumbo frames can make a huge difference, especially on "bus impaired" older, low end stuff.
I went to great lengths to keep a large portion of the network at my old job jumbo clean. I just setup a small linux box to route between the clean and unclean subnets. There will always be some stuff, like JetDirect cards, that are not compliant so some type of go between will be necessary. The main annoyance in doing so is finding out if a particular NIC is actually jumbo clean or not and if so, to what degree. Not all jumbo clean devices support MTUs all the way up to 9000. Getting this info from the manufacturers can often be a difficulty. K On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:35:21AM +0100, Michael-John Turner wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:02:21AM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote: > > Neither of them is using enough CPU to even show up during a transfer, so > > I'm not sure why I can't get better. > > You should be able to get better performance if you enable jumbo frames - > doing so does require all machines connected to the switch or on the same > VLAN to have them enabled though. > > -mj > -- > Michael-John Turner > mj@... | http://mjturner.net/ > _______________________________________________ > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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Re: Gigabit Ethernet SBus & Gigabit Ethernet Sun 420R/220R
by Dan Sikorski
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Reply (Restricted by the Administrator) | Reply to Author | View Threaded | Show Only this Message Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > I get the same kind of numbers on the same model switch. Maybe the > switch just sucks. I should check if there's a firmware upgrade > available for it. On an almost-related note, at some point in the past, I had discussed on this list (with Sridhar?) the possibility of using a WS-X5410 9 port gigabit module with WS-G5483 1000baseT GBICs in a cisco catalyst 5000. Even though cisco documentation says that the copper GBICs will not work, they do work just fine. CatOS sees all ports, and shows the ports with the copper GBICS as 1000baseT. There are a couple of limitations in my setup, however. Since the catalyst 5000 only has a 1.3Gbps backplane, performance between the FDDI and 10/100 ethernet portions of the network could be limited. This is not a problem for me since we're talking about my home network with only a handful of hosts. Due to an ASIC limitation, the WS-X5410 cannot use jumbo frames, which sucks. Had i known that, i probably would have opted for getting a couple of the 3 port modules, and living with the backplane limitation between the two modules, or finding a 5500 chassis to move everything to. -Dan Sikorski _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue |
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