Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:49:03 -0800 (PST) From: "John K. Doyle, Jr." <John.Doyle@oracle.com>
Kevin,
I'm surprised to see YOU (an old DECnet person :)) recommending this. You know he's gonna die if he's running pipes larger than T1s. The process-switching will eat him alive, no?
You can do better than a T-1 with most routers, but I can't argue that it's efficient. If TGV was still around, I'd whole-heartedly recommend it. I should have looked at the current offering from Process. I see that the current version does support DECnet over IP. But even though MultiNet was VERY well written in this area, it is still limited bandwidth. It's just that the bottlenecks are at the end systems and not at the routers. But this is definitely a better way to go. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634