Re: 5BRI
Simon Nuthall ((no email))
Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:58:55 -0700 (PDT)
Once upon a time Scott A. Lagos shaped the electrons to say...
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>Hello all,
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>We currently have a PM2e and are considering adding a 5BRI for the
>purpose of connecting our local LAN and Internet Connection with 5 other
>LANS. Each of the 5 LANs have 30-40 users on them. Most of the users
>use email, surf and moderate level FTP. We will have 20 Dial-in 28.8k
>ports on the PM at the main location as well. My concern is that with
>this amount of traffic coming into the PM, will it get so swamped that
>it will become slow and useless? I understand that more memory in the
>PM may not help either. After all its just a 386 processor in there
>right? Any thoughts, warnings, recommendations, etc. Would it be better
>to just get a stand alone PM-2i-ST
Depending on the traffic on the LAN's you may need to give them more
bandwidth, but maybe i'm just a bandwidth hog. This configuration will work
fine for you, you could always expand to a PM2E-10i-ST when the needs be to
get more line going out to remote sites.
The amount of traffic would not be a problem, but memory could be if you are
running IPX.
>Btw, the PM 5BRIs we will talking to Pipeline 130s and 50s at the remote
>sites.
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>Thanks,
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>Scott
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