Academic workstations -- Followups to comp.unix.questions ONLY

[Todd]

In article <32705 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
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>However, I will agree that blaming it on the diskless workstations is
>a wonderful alibi, the yokels believe you and rarely ask you to
>actually do your job and find out what's really causing the problem.
>
>It's the diskless workstations, it's the diskless workstations (we
>know those diskless workstation users will never buy the local disks
>you recommend so it's a safe bet to blame it on them.)
>
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>-- 
>	-Barry Shein
>
>Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade
>1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202

I have been doing traffic analysis, and it is our diskless
workstations which are pulling down our network.  Our network
throughput is starting to drop because of the high collision rate,
BUT...

I work in a reasearch environment (and the two other places that I
have checked were research environments), so we have lots and lots of
workstations with lots of users pushing the workstations pretty hard.
If you have only a small isolated lab (or one connected to a larger
network by a bridge (not simply a repeater)), diskless stations may be
a better buy.

(The poor poster who started this thread probably has given up on
getting his original question answered)

Todd Heberlein