[ale] network question

[Richard Bronosky]

"B" is pure evil brilliance.

On 12/4/09, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> If the legacy network is 100M a simple conversion (with hardware upgrades)
> to Gbit will be a worthwhile process.
>
> If you currently have 2 networks and each machine is on both and all lines
> converge at the same switch, um, sounds like it's already as packed as it
> can be. A single network will be simply easier to manage and then you can do
> ethernet bonding and get better through put (usually - if the switch is
> ancient crap it may choke and do Bad Things tm  to packets).
>
> I'm a fan of legacy eviction when there is exactly "no reason" for keeping
> it.
>
> Put in a 10Gb switch and nics for your servers and Gbit for your clients.
> Use the old wires and 100Mb lines for printers and management connections.
>
> By management I mean pointy haired boss types. The slower their stuff is
> A: the less damage they can do
> B: the more upgrades you can justify 'cause they got the fastest stuff last
> time and it's just good enough...
>
> :-)
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Geoffrey
> <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:
>
>> scott wrote:
>> > it all depends.  what are the two networks for?
>>
>> All I'm told is that it was a legacy thing, no real reason.  Now they're
>> worried that if they put everything on a single network, it will
>> saturate the bandwidth on the single network.  No network bandwidth
>> study has been done, so this is just a guess.
>>
>> > do you do vlan tagging?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> > how about etherbonding (like LACP)?
>>
>> No, considering it though.
>>
>> > are the two networks separate for a reason?
>>
>> Again, there is no reason, pure legacy.
>>
>> > Answers to each of these questions will bring
>> > more questons and so forth until we can then answer the questions.
>> > This is not a simple question.
>>
>> I know, hence the inquiry. ;)
>>
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>> Until later, Geoffrey
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