magorian@UMD5.UMD.EDU (Dan Magorian) (10/13/89)
I hope to be changing our labs over to Ethertalk 2 next week. Performance has been somewhat better than 1.2, but I haven't benched it yet. The problem has been getting Phase II releases of the Fastpath 4 software from Kinetics, and the production release of Apple router (as well as Phase II drivers for Etherport and EtherSE boards). But our labs are pretty homogeneous: MacIIs for clients and AppleShare server using Apple/3Com Ethernet boards. I don't expect to convert faculty/staff nets (with KSpool and lots of other Phase I stuff) for awhile. Having tried it, I don't see any benefit from running a mixed net: wait till you have Phase II drivers for all boards & routers, then cut over. They coexist on the same wire, but so do IP and DECnet... Dan Magorian (301) 454-6030 Computer Science Center magorian@umd5.umd.edu University of Maryland magorian@umdd.bitnet College Park, MD 20742 Applelink: A0190