On Thu 24 Dec, 1998, Bruce Walker bmw@visgen.com wrote:

mark writes:

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So, if I was hoping for high performance for a news spool on a filer [...] I'd use Gb-ether into an Extreme switch.

Have you actually done this? I have a 720 with Gigabit ether

No, I've never had my hands on such advanced networking kit, though I know of a site using them happily enough. The principle is sound...but theory doesn't necessarily matter a fig when your working to a deadline, for example.

I'd be surprised if the problem was a complete show-stopper, and I too would love to know if anyone has good or bad experiences using NetApp's with Gb-ether they would like to share.

-- End of excerpt from Bruce Walker