Ok, I am still a lowly CCNA however Einstein said make things as simple as they need to be and no more. I work on a LAN where we transmit large print files to Xerox laser printers. These files can get up to 1.5Gb in size and sometimes a bit larger. The Printers run on older Sun workstations and they have 10Mb cards. I have never come across a situation where the server has been able to over flow first of all the switches buffer and second of all it's NICs buffer. I know I am not the only sys admin who randomly sits on the network with a packet sniffer and analyses traffic from the major sources of traffic on their network, yes sometimes there will be some retransmit requests by the Xerox workstations however nothing of large significance. Also these retransmits usually occur when another workstation is processing a separate file also about 1Gb or more and that data is being transferred over the network from workstation so the server. Also what kind of network environment would you be in where your server would be slammin one workstation? Even real-time video would create this type of overload, especially since I can imaging it would be run over UDP and packets would be dropped if they were out of order. Theoretically you may be able to overwhelm a 10base T card however I would even doubt that considering the windowing and source quenching built into TCP/IP (source quench may be the wrong term but you all should know what I am talking about). I think it is far better to have the bandwidth ready and available then to fall short.
That's just my opinion on the humble, Steven Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65357&t=65263 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
