RE: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform)

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't there gigabit NICs for the AS400? Then your bandwidth issue is a
non-issue (10 times faster than 100 megabit). Besides, IIRC, a standard T-1
connection to the internet is only 1.5 megabit you would never use the whole
bandwidth of the NIC.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@bvstools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:31 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving
platform)


Andrew,

I don't know if this was looked at yet, but if performance
is an issue, I can bet you have a huge bottleneck in the
AS/400 NIC itself.

With 10 NT servers, you have 10 NICs.  With an AS/400, you
have one.  That's a lot more load that can go in an out on
the NTs.

Sure, it's great to assign multiple IPs to an AS/400 NIC,
but that doesn't do you any good when you start doing a lot
of business on the web.

If IBM would let us install NICs at will (the $15 ones from
Circuit City, not the $500 ones from them) then great!  But
that's going to bite the iSeries in the bum.. and it's so
often overlooked as part of the e-Commerce plan.  It's
assumed that the AS/400 can take the traffic (cuz it rulz),
but it can't.  It's still just a 10/100 NIC just like in
your PC.

Brad


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