Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:18:41 04/26/00
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On April 26, 2000 at 12:09:56, Tom Likens wrote: >On April 25, 2000 at 23:53:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 25, 2000 at 23:45:29, robert michelena wrote: >> >>>LOL. Too much. lol "to all morons..." >> >> >>Just so you know... our campus ftp machine in CIS (the one I am responsible >>for) has really attracted the attention of our campus network folks. :) >> >>They have noticed the following: >> >>(1) we are sustaining about 70mbits/second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, non- >>stop (downloads going out of the department). The majority of this is the >>databases. >> >>(2) they used to could tell when Eugene would upload a new set of 5 piece >>files, as they would see a big spike in net usage. The spike has been >>smoothed out to a continual 70mbits/sec now, it seems. We are averaging about >>40 ftp users non-stop, many sucking up the 6 piece files, which is amazing. >> >>(3) we have a campus traffic monitor, and it consistently has >>juniper.cis.uab.edu at the very top of the list traffic-wise, this in a > >Sounds like you guys need to upgrade to an Avici TSR (Terabit Switch Router) >and get rid of that Juniper box!! > >DISCLAIMER: And yep, I do work for Avici, as an ASIC analog designer :) > Juniper is our ftp server, our usenet news server, and is a pentium pro 200mhz box running linux. 70 mbits/second is not bad for a 100mbit/second ethernet card that is old (ie half duplex). it is being replaced by a dual PIII box hopefully next week...
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