Hello Rob! > If you're talking about OSA with QDIO, then I think there are situations > where you want to have a virtual router rather than direct access to the > OSA device. The IP address assignment is done with the qeth driver, so
[... nice explanation ...] > QDIO devices get more efficient at higher bandwidth (because buffers get > filled better and less handshaking is done). This works out both in CPU > time and memory usage. Depending on the shape of network traffic, the > savings may be more than the cost of the virtual router. Thank you for explaining that so well. I already had these issues in mind (not so clearly though). In that customer's case, there will be just a few web servers being administered by a very limited number of people. Given your explanations, I belive there's no real reason for not using OSA in their case. Thank you again! -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ]
