[ale] Linking Linuxes

[James W. Lynch]

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> From ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu Mon Mar 25 15:11 EST 1996
> From: "Dan Newcombe" <newcombe at aa.csc.peachnet.edu>
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> It may be some kinda proxy server, or special DNS setup which gives a 
> different address each time to keep them rotating.  The main concern 
> would be how do you let all 8 share data?  Do they all have copies of 
> the same data on thier machines?  Or are they linked via a fast 
> ethernet internally, with external connections on another net segment?
Ethernet?  I suspect FDDI, ATM or HiPPI.  Maybe they have some
network disk arrays on a HiPPI switch and running some sort of
shared file system.  That would give you nearly 100-200 Mbytes/second
disk access.  Or they could be using NFS/DFS over FDDI, ATM or HiPPI.
DFS has local caching, I think, so it would be superior for that
kind of an access.
> 
Jim.

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