On 8 Oct 2002 at 15:02, Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Charlie Brady wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Craig Foster wrote: > > > > > The main reason for e100 besides new chipset compatibility, is support > > > for Intel Advanced Networking Services (iANS) for Load Balancing, Fault > > > Tolerance, and Bandwidth Aggregation (802.3ad), something which Windows > > > 2000 Server vendors have long used. (The intel server boards, since the > > > dual P3, come with two onboard eepro 100 server adapters for this very > > > reason). I wouldn't use a W2K Terminal Server for more than five people > > > without this feature. > > > > What differences are visible or measurable in the SME server performance > > with the ANS capable driver installed? > > And to add to that question.. > > Can you speculate as to why RedHat don't believe that these issues > matter? > > Are you sure that you aren't just working around a deficiency in W2K > Terminal Server? >
PMJI, but I have long used the iANS system on Netware (not known for being a slouch, speed-wise). There are a number of benefits, the two main ones being: Adapter teaming (bandwidth aggregation), which will effectively allows up to 4 NIC's full bandwith each on reads from the server (only on a switch, though). Load balancing, which works well on Netware - I'm inclined to give it a try with SME now that we have a driver which can be used with it. A side benefit is failover support if a NIC goes bad, but I've never seen this happen. [Thanks, Darrell] -- Nick Ramsay Witzend Computer Services http://www.witzendcs.co.uk/ -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
