From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 31 15:25: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stella.pyramus.com (stella.pyramus.com [206.129.206.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDB737B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyramus.com (dark-star.pyramus.com [206.129.206.6]) by stella.pyramus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24174 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blake@pyramus.com) Message-ID: <3BE08A33.9E6F6192@pyramus.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:33:07 -0800 From: Blake Swensen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en]C-DIAL (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Network Planning Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am researching methods of improving network reliability, taking into account my current network and all its dependencies. I am pretty certain that I can accomplish this by dedicating a private network to NFS, then having multiple redundant servers for our several services (smtp, http, etc.). This, however comes at a performance cost.... even on our 100BT net, NFS is just not performing fast enough. I would think that Gigabit would be the answer... having a gigabit "back plane" for NFS traffic and letting 100 baseT handle the rest. Considering that I have a mix of FreeBSD-3.3 and FreeBSD-4.x machines, I need to pick your collective brains about good, compatible hardware, experiences with Gigabit switches, or any other ideas you may have on this. Peace, Blake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message