Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!albanycs!steinmetz!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Retix Bridges experiences? Summary: Retix Bridges Message-ID: <89@stanton.TCC.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 04:16:11 GMT References:Distribution: comp Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca. Lines: 48 In article , peter@myst.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall) writes: > We are being offered Retix bridges that are supposed to be able to > forward 6000 packets per second and monitor 12000 per second at the > low low price of about us$1850 each. This is significantly less than > bridges like DEC's LANbridge. Does anyone have any experience with > these units? Are they reliable? Do they get the traffic through? Do > they support any reasonable monitoring and management capabilities? > What's your experience with these boxes? Any information would be > much appreciated. Peter (and others) the answers to your questions are: 1)They are less expensive than DEC LANBRIDGE units. Their capability is 100% when doing a black-box/learning bridge function. 2)They are very reliable. Our test units have seen about 1000+ powered on test hours on our live network without lock-up or failure of any type. 3)The traffic gets through properly. This includes (on our live net): Bridge Communications XNS Bridge Communications TCP/IP Novell Ungermann Bass XNS Fairchild fastlink Apollo TCP/IP Sun TCP/IP Daisy TCP/IP DECNET FTP TCP/IP Wollongong TCP/IP XYPLEX TCP/IP and others too numerous to mention... 4) Monitoring and management - the units that I have experience with are black box units, ie they perform a function flawlessly and don't have any bells and whistles. I will soon be evaluating the Retix units that do support filtering and network management hooks. I will be happy to relate my experiences if the net is interested. If any of you have seen the movie INC - I LOVE this job (as the actor reads his ever ascending blood pressure reading) :-)) -- Steven P. Donegan These opinions are given on MY time, not Sr. Telecommunications Analyst Western Digital's Western Digital Corp. stanton!donegan || donegan@stanton.TCC.COM || donegan%stanton@tcc.com