Networking RS/6000's ?

[John D. McCalpin]

>>>>> On 20 Mar 91 15:10:44 GMT, rg at gandp (Dick Gill) said:

Dick> [we] are proposing a Model 320H to an existing client;[...] he
Dick> wants to make _SURE_ that, as his needs grow, he can add a
Dick> second (and third) system and have them networked in a way that
Dick> directories can be shared among users on all systems (there may
Dick> also be a more minor need to log on to another system).

Dick> I assume that the means to achieve this is NFS running on TCP/IP
Dick> over Ethernet, 

Yes.

Dick> Now the question.  Is this a relatively simple and
Dick> straightforward thing to do?  Does it _REALLLY_ work reliably? 

Yes and yes.

Dick> Practiccally, how many RS/6000's can be networked in this
Dick> manner?  How much support complication is introduced by the
Dick> network?

There should not be any trouble or performance degradation with up to
a dozen or more hosts.  Of course it depends on how much you data you
are actually pumping across the ethernet in the transfers between
machines.... 
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