linda@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Linda Birmingham) (10/03/90)
Hi, We would like to know what experience people have of using SGI in an academic environment with a distributed network. If you have any information please email me. Thanks, Linda Birmingham. (Linda.Birmingham@brunel.ac.uk) -- Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. janet: Linda.Birmingham@brunel.ac.uk
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) (10/05/90)
Historically (up to 3-4 year ago), SGI boxes have not been as network friendly as Suns. However, with the 4D's SGI has done quite a good job. We are heavily networked with yellow pages on our Suns, lots of cross mounted filesystems (w/suns and vaxen), and X all over. All the important network functionality is avaialable and seems solid. (Better in some ways than SunOS 4.0.3 whose nslookup dumps core on our Sun-3's. :-|) The only thing I miss is MX mail forwarding in sendmail. Sure would be nice though. SGI listening? (Actually, maybe it's already there. IRIX's nslookup(1) has been able to get MX forwarding info for at least a couple releases. If it is, would someone send me the necessary sendmail.cf magic?) Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics Durand 012 Stanford University FAX: (415) 725-3377 (jim@KAOS.stanford.edu) Work: (415) 723-9127