du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) (07/06/90)
I am investigating a proposal to connect a token ring backbone in
our building with a campus wide ethernet backbone through a dedicated
PC running IBM's tcp/ip router program.
I understand that this PC could become a data bottleneck, but
have been unable to get a good feel for just how much traffic will
cause things to really slow down. We are looking at using an old dual
floppy IBM PC with a 16 Mbs token ring card and Ungerman bass ethernet
card as the router, and initial usage would propably be mostly FTP
transfers and maybe a few telnet sessions. As usage grew we would
upgrade the PC to an AT , to a 386 and so on.
Does anyone out there with experience with this type of setup have
any insight as to whether we will be able to get adequate throughput?
Any ideas as to how one calculates the ablilty of a router to handle
a given load? Any information or pointer would be greatly appreciated.
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Ted Goldstein E-mail: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu
Network and Systems Admninistrator Phone : (317) 494-9070
Purdue University School of Technology Office: Knoy Hall, Rm G009
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