sflynn@udel.edu (Steven J Flynn) (04/28/91)
Question: Can any of these
4D/25
4D/35
4D/310
act as and ethernet gateway? That is, does their bus structure allow
multiple ethernet cards?
We currently have a 4D/25 and are anticipating the arrival of the rest. We
are looking into subnetting these machines to increase speed.
Thanks in advance.
Steve Flynn
University of Delawarevjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (04/28/91)
In article <52053@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, sflynn@udel.edu (Steven J Flynn) writes: > > Question: Can any of these > ... > act as and ethernet gateway? All IRIS's from the venerable IRIS-3000 thru all currently shipping 4D's can have at least one extra ethernet interface and can forward IP just fine. Some can have 9 or more ethernet interfaces. (Such a configuration is not likely to make any sense.) The vast majority of the ethernet routers among the Silicon Graphics ~80 ethernets are now and have always been IRIS's. You can get pretty close to dedicated router performance if you put enough CPU power in the box. Nevertheless, when I last asked, I was told we do not have any ambitions in the router market. It would be interesting if some disinterested third party could compile a workstation-as-router scorecard, considering Suns, Apollos, Nexts, MIPS, IRIS',s DEC VAX and 3100's, DG's, Convex, Cray, CDC, PC-clone's, etc, etc. I have few ideas how all of those might rank. Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com