This has been bantered around before and the answer is.. It
depends. When I worked at Cray Research we kept a segment at around 30
users. They were supercomputer software developers and compilers, heavy
users. If you have 1000 people doing simple data entry you would
probably be fine.
Da
Than answer has nothing to do with users, but to do with how much they will
utilize the segment. No more than 30% utilization is the standard threshold
on an ethernet segment. Utilization on a WAN link should be no higher than
70%.
Rob Cluett, CCNA
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> I can't for the life of me remember what the recommended
> maximum number of clients on one segment is, I think it was
> either 300 or 500.
It depends. Cisco has some guidelines on this that are based mostly on a
concern for broadcast traffic. Although b
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> > either 300 or 500.
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> It depends
The official Cisco answer is 200 for AppleTalk, 300 for IPX, and 500 for
IP.
Dan
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> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I can't for the life of me remember what the recommended
> > > maximum number of clients on one segment is, I think it was
> > > either 300 or 500.
> > >
> > IP is 500
> > IPX is 300
> > AppleTalk is 200
> > Ne
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I can't for the life of me remember what the recommended
> > maximum number of clients on one segment is, I think it was
> > either 300 or 500.
> >
> IP is 500
> IPX is 300
> AppleTalk is 200
> NetBIOS is 200
> Mixed is 200
>
>
> Also, those numbers from Cisco are pretty dat
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> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I can't for the life of me remember what the recommended
> > > maximum number of clients on one segment is, I think it was
> > > either 300 or 500.
> > >
> > IP is 500
> > IPX is 300
> > AppleTalk is 200
> > NetBIOS is 200
> > Mixed is 200
> >
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