From: Ken Diliberto (ken@kdmd.net)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2005 - 11:42:31 GMT-3
Chuck,
Wow! We were doing exactly the same thing a few years before that. I
think we had 4 EISA Madge 4/16 Token Ring cards in a pair of Compaq
SystemPros running NetWare 3.11. Good thing that the network mostly
shuffled word processing documents and mainframe terminal sessions.
I remember having issues with canonical address translation between the
Token Ring subnets and the FDDI backbone when we used Border Manager for
the firewall. That was tough to troubleshoot. I use that as the answer
to "what should you be concerned with when connecting an Ethernet subnet
to an FDDI subnet?". They want the MTU answer, but I hit them with the
canonical answer and give my story. Lots of fun. :-)
Ahhhh.... the good ol' days. :-)
Ken
Church, Chuck wrote:
> Ken,
>
> I see where you're coming from. Back in '98, we were using
> NetWare servers for inter-segment token ring routing, and connection to
> a FDDI backbone. It was much cheaper than a Cisco 7500, and the
> throughput was acceptable. But when layer 3 switches (ASIC-based) came
> out, everything changed. Being able to route a few million packets per
> second on a 3550 (SMI running about $2500) is pretty tough to beat these
> days.
>
>
> Chuck Church
> Lead Design Engineer
> CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
> Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation
> 1210 N. Parker Rd.
> Greenville, SC 29609
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> cchurch@netcogov.com
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>
>
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