[Gllug] GLLUG: NICs

[Davies Sue]

I can't claim to understand the rationale behind the way they've done things
but I do know not to argue over it.  Performance at the desktop is
considered acceptable.  To be honest I think we have other problems which
make it worse, multiple domains that don't really seem to trust each other
and an awful mix of every kind of M$ operating system.  Machines drop out of
the domain or won't join, servers getting stressed for no obvious reason,
packets disappearing, you get the picture.  I'm just hoping it gets soooo
bad that they give up M$ and go for it

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at cern.ch]
Sent: 29 January 2003 13:54
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: RE: [Gllug] GLLUG: NICs


On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 12:19, Davies Sue wrote:
> It's the Cisco thing, the guys in Networks said you will set servers to
100
> full, jd boxes to 100 full and desktops to 10 half. 

Why 10half on the desktops?
I don't think there is a good engineering rationale for this.
A sum like 10x10 Mbps PCs fills one 100Mbps server port isn't right,
very much IMHO.
In Framestore I put in 24port switches - desktops happily working at 100
full.

If your server is saturated, your server is saturated.

(ps. I don't mean to sound confrontational. And please don't take
your hard worked network staff to task)


Anyway, if anyone is interested at all, here is the post on
setting forced full duplex:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/0201.0/0011.html





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