Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!sri-ai.arpa!PEREIRA From: PEREIRA@SRI-AI.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.workstations Subject: Sun 2/50s on mixed nets Message-ID: <8511080030.AA15537@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 12:22:36 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8511080030.AA15537 Posted: Sun Oct 27 12:22:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:29:00 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 11 Approved: works@ucbvax.berkeley.edu At SRI's AI Center, we have an Ethernet with over 20 Symbolics and Xerox Lisp machines, 2 VAXes running VMS/Eunice, one Sun 2/170 file server, two 2/50's and other bits and pieces. Our collision rate seems pretty low (less than 1 per 1000 packets), and the Suns talk with no problem (or apparent slow down) to the VAXes and Lisp machines. However, the 2/170 will sometimes choke on heavy output from the diskless 2/50s, for example when a 4 Mb process dumps core. We then get NFS not ready messages, but things recover within less than a minute. -- Fernando Pereira