luke@tasis.utas.oz (Luke Visser) (05/11/89)
We are running a student lab with 25 Mac SEs, 2 IW IIs and a Mac II
server running AppleShare 2.0 and Apple's PrintServer. All this is
connected via LocalTalk and also to a MultiGate gate. This means we
get quite a few users from outside zones.
I want to know what sort of monitoring tools are available that I
can use to monitor the network. The only tools I have seen are
Peek (really crude but gets the packets) and Traffic Watch.
The sorts of things we would like to be able to monitor are
a) sampling time
b) error rates
c) packets/sec
d) sizes of packets
e) type of protocol used by packets
f) node to node communication
g) effective transport rate of network
h) and more.
A question about AppleShare 2.0: What is the limit on the number
of users who can be connected to the file server? AS 1.0 had a limit
of 32 and 2.0 has a limit of at least 43. Is this configurable?
Luke Visser
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UUCP: {enea,hplabs,mcvax,uunet,ukc}!munnari!tasis.utas.oz!lukepwd@apple.com (Pat Dirks) (05/12/89)
In article <1035@tasis.utas.oz> luke@tasis.utas.oz (Luke Visser) writes: > A question about AppleShare 2.0: What is the limit on the number > of users who can be connected to the file server? AS 1.0 had a limit > of 32 and 2.0 has a limit of at least 43. Is this configurable? I imagine this may have been covered before, but here it goes anyway: The limit on the number of simultaneously connected users has not changed from AppleShare 1.0 to AppleShare 2.0; both will allow up to 25 simultaneous users if the Server is running on a 68000 machine with 1MB of memory, such as a Mac Plus or Mac SE, and will allow up to 50 simultaneous users if the Server has at least 2MB of memory and a 68020 or 68030 processor, such as an SE/30, Mac II, IIx, or IIcx. The number is not directly configurable. The number of authorized users is limited only by such outside considerationsas disk space, speed of AppleShare Admin, administrative headache, etc. Practically speaking, I suppose around 1,200 users is a reasonable limit. Hope this clears it up, -Pat Dirks.
tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans) (05/12/89)
In article <1035@tasis.utas.oz>, luke@tasis.utas.oz (Luke Visser) writes: > We are running a student lab with 25 Mac SEs, 2 IW IIs and a Mac II > server running AppleShare 2.0 and Apple's PrintServer. All this is > connected via LocalTalk and also to a MultiGate gate. This means we > get quite a few users from outside zones. > > I want to know what sort of monitoring tools are available that I Ask the Multigate. It keeps a lot of those stats. Details mailed separately to Luke. --------- Tom Evans tom@wcc.oz | Webster Computer Corp P/L | "The concept of my 1270 Ferntree Gully Rd | existence is an Scoresby VIC 3179 Australia | approximation" Australia | 61-3-764-1100 FAX ...764-1179 | D. Conway