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. -- 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 -Life is like a merry-go-round . . . they both have horses.