I have found that asking, innocently, "why is it important to get the wrong answer quickly" sometimes clarifies such situations.
Strange things do happen. I had an otherwise sane customer that had 10 Mbps to the desktop, which was routed to two FDDI rings on dual-ported servers. There were about 100 servers, 85 for software development and 15 production. About 1000 programmers with high-powered UNIX workstations accessed these servers. >A while back I had the experience of witnessing a large network expenditure >for similar reasons as the below. > >Unfortunately, the underlying problems *causing* the collisions and >broadcasts went unaddressed. Raw speed can hide many ills. For a while. > >Before moving over to a switched environment, you might want to take a >comparatively easy look at your 10Mb shared environment. You should be able >to take a peek at all the traffic, all at once, and find any glaring errors >there. There has been much previous groupstudy traffic on inexpensive/free >and costly ethernet sniffers available. > >Of course, remote management per port on switches is also useful, and one >*can* use port mirroring to sniff the wire. Nonetheless, I'd take the time >to doctor up that shared ethernet first. > >Best, G. >VP OGC > >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: RE: Infrastructure Upgrade..... [7:37627] >> >> Actually what we are trying to do is increase speed, >> eliminate collisions >> and reduce any kind of broadcasting in the LAN.... >> >> Subject: Re: Infrastructure Upgrade..... [7:37627] >> >> Well, >> >> You did pick a pretty expensive switch to purchase...hehe >> > > the 1900's are 10mb to the desktop... You'll see some Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=37762&t=37627 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
