On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Bennett Todd wrote:
I'd probably do something similar, but not quite identical. I wouldn't mess with multi-cpu, at least not intially (though Linux supports it) until and unless I got convinced that I couldn't tune the code to saturate a 100Mbps with a nice fast single cpu.
Cynicism aside, I's still want to run a microkernel rather than Linux on my box. The whole idea between NetApp is that it is a limited, but fairly highly optimized (although surprisingly unstable at times) box. If you do what you described below you're just creating another Auspex. Auspex have their place too though, they're easily customizable and can tun SunOS services which can be very usefull for home directory servers.
I'd really hope you could pretty easily saturate 100BaseT with that sort o' lashup, and be well-positioned to deliver rocking performance through etherchannel and maybe even gigabit ether, though there you might in fact need more muscle.
Speaking of EtherChannel or more generically Link Aggregation. Does anyone know a link describing it in quite a detail without going through a complete protocol suite definition.
Tom