rmcmahon@houvmscc.vnet.ibm.com (04/24/91)
Does anybody out there have any empirical data or know of any references containing information on what kind of traffic can be expected on a small PC lan? Ball park figures will be fine. The LAN configuration that I have in mind is 7 PC's with 1 Server which stores all the applications. Most of the applications will run on each PC but the requester RAM will be loaded over the network. 1 Laser Printer will be connected to the server. Finally, the applications will be word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail ect - nothing to demanding on the network. Thanks to anyone who may have such a configuration and have some empirical numbers. Bob McMahon ** If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.
sshriva@hubcap.clemson.edu (Sumant Shrivastava) (04/25/91)
In article <9104232157.AA29513@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, rmcmahon@houvmscc.vnet.ibm.com writes: > Does anybody out there have any empirical data or know of > any references containing information on what kind of traffic > can be expected on a small PC lan? Ball park figures will > be fine. > > The LAN configuration that I have in mind is 7 PC's with > 1 Server which stores all the applications. Most of the > applications will run on each PC but the requester RAM > will be loaded over the network. 1 Laser Printer will be > connected to the server. Finally, the applications will be > word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail ect - nothing to demanding > on the network. > > Thanks to anyone who may have such a configuration and have some > empirical numbers. > > Bob McMahon > ** If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving. ************************************************************************* The following may be of interest to you: 1. Measured Ethernet Performance for Multiple Large File Transfers, S. Francis, V. S. Frost, D.L. Soldan, Proceedings - 14th conference on local computer networks, IEEE Computer Society, 1989, pp 323-327. 2. Measured Performance of an Ethernet Local Network, J. F. Shoch, J. A. Hupp, The Ethernet Sourcebook, Elsevier Science Publishing, 1985, pp 31-54. The authors of [1] are/were University of Kansas and of [2] with XEROX (Palo Alto). Sumant