SST.D-BIGELOW%KLA.WESLYN@WESLEYAN.BITNET (Douglas Bigelow) (04/22/87)
Wesleyan is replacing a DECSYSTEM-20 with another machine which may end up being a VAX 8550 or 8700. If so, we're planning to have access to the machine be 100% through Ethernet via TCP/IP terminal servers. We're running the CMU version of Tektronix TCP/IP. Now, the questions: 1) Does anyone have any experience running 100 or so concurrent users over a TCP/IP network to a VAX? (Via any software, not just Tektronix.) 2) Can anyone guess at the performance penalty we'd pay, compared with using straight serial connections via DMF-32s or something? I know that LAT terminal servers would work much more efficiently, but we have other non-DEC mainframes which are only accessable through TCP/IP. Thanks for any opinions or advice you can offer. -------