mark@badger.dosli.govt.nz (Mark Wright) (03/19/91)
We are looking at setting up a wide area network based on tcp-ip. We currently have several Ethernets in different district offices. These Ethernets have Ultrix workstations using TCP-IP, PCs running Novell (with BYU IPX, packet drivers and CUTCP). The major reason for the WAN is the centralisation of management information at head office, with "terminal" access from the district offices. As we would like to use the (dedicated) lines for other traffic (file transfer, mail, news and print spooling), we intend to use TCP/IP. Our intended plan is to use 9.6 kb lines for the smaller offices, moving to faster lines for the larger offices. My main question is what sort of performance can we expect from the 9.6 kb lines? Is it reasonable to run say three terminal sessions over such a line with TCP/IP ? Also, does the entire setup sound realistic, what sort of problems can I expect? Any comments from people experienced with such a situation would be appreciated: are we on the right track? Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Wright. Dept. of Survey and Land Information,NZ. email: mark@dosli.govt.nz phone: 64 4 710-380 ext 8688
DRWilliams@cup.portal.com (Dave Richard Williams) (03/22/91)
I've played with slip connections a bit at 9600, and haven't had any major problems. Only had one active session at a time, and was doing pings between each host just to see how things went. The session seemed alright and the pings were timeed around 240ms per. Don't know if it'll help at all. I'm just getting started in all this mess myself.