I have an Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter which works good. I had
to do some tweaking to get it to work with my non-cisco equipment because it
is designed around the Cisco fast ether-channel technology instead of strict
802.1q standards, but we got that taken care of.
-----Original Message-----
From: andyh
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Clever NICs - was: VLAN's and Routers [7:2534]
>does anyone actually have any experience of "clever" NICs? - ie
>etherchannel-enabled, vlan-aware(ISL/dot1q), etc?
>
>I seem to remember posting this a year or so back with a deafening silence
>as result - have we all really gotten shot of server admin already? If so,
>do the server guys know what cool stuff we can do for them??
>
>if anyone has any experience then I would be glad to know about it - NT,
>Solaris, *BSD, etc.
>
>Andy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sammi"
>To:
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:15 PM
>Subject: Re: VLAN's and Routers [7:2534]
>
>
>> On 30 Apr 2001 15:06:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Howard C. Berkowitz")
>> wrote:
>>
>> >>Thanks all, that clarifies somewhat.
>> >>
>> >>On 30 Apr 2001 14:06:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Karen E Young")
>> >>wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Usually there needs to be some form of communication
>> >>>between VLANS though, so practically speaking you do need a router.
>> >>
>> >>What I would like to do is create broadcast domains for different
>> >>departments, ie finance, admin. But all departments would need to
>> >>communicate with the same server(s).
>> >
>> >Have you looked at VLAN-aware NICs on the server? They would let you
>> >have a logical interface in each VLAN.
>>
>> I haven't, but I will do so.
>>
>> >There may be more basic questions. Approximately how many hosts are
>> >in each department? What protocols do they run? Is there a specific
>> >reason you think you may have a problem with broadcasts? Are the
>> >hosts plugged into switches that can do per-port broadcast rate
>> >limiting?
>>
>> From my limited knowledge I've observed that there is no network
>> management. All switches are run "out of the box". It seems we would
>> get more efficiency by isolating departments. There are 6 - 12 hosts
>> in a typical department, most located in a one floor building with
>> four wings, others located in various quonset huts connected to main
>> via fibre.
>> Currently running Banyan IP, am migrating the environment to 2000 and
>> rebuilding the infrastructure in the process.
>> I am replacing the 2800 and 1900 switches with Catalyst 2900xl, I
>> haven't seen mention of throttling capability.
>>
>> My goal is to simplify management, or centralize may be more accurate,
>> and make the network as efficient as possible.
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