>I disagree.
>I maintained ADSM on an IBM SP node with 100mb ethernet & FDDI.  Other
boxes
>being backed up on FDDI were originally coming through the routers &
>switches through the 100mb card on our server.  Its throughput was about
>that of a 10mb ethernet LAN.  Our LAN personnel spoke of the overhead of
the
>routers & switches changing ethernet to FDDI traffic.  Backup speed resumed
>at several MB/sec after we added a FDDI card to the ADSM server.  I know
>virtually nothing about LAN configuration.  Fortunately we were able to
>throw money at the problem in the form of a FDDI card to provide a cure.
>Others may be successful in LAN tuning.
>
>Randy Eggert
>MAPCO, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jones, Anthony [mailto:Jones4A AT KOCHIND DOT COM]
>Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 8:31 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Windows NT server and multiple network adapters
>
>
>Why so much hardware.  The cost effective way, would be to have the
>connection from the ADSM server to the network be of one type and have
>routers and switches funnel the data from the others to the ADSM server.
>Adding multiple nics of so different topologies will do nothing but slow
>your server down trying to process them all, it you can get them to work
>together.
>
>Anthony Jones
>ADSM Administrator
>Koch Industries, Inc.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [SMTP:Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT NL]
>> Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 7:58 AM
>> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject:      Windows NT server and multiple network adapters
>>
>> Hi ADSM-ers!
>> I'm thinking about buying an ADSM server for Windows NT.
>> Clients need to be able to connect to this server through 16 Mb. Token
>> Ring,
>> 100 Mb. Ethernet and FDDI, so the server I have in mind will have 4
>> network
>> adapters.
>> Some people over here say this will be a problem for Windows NT.
>> Are there any people out there who can say something about this from
>> experience?
>> Thanks for any reply!
>> Kindest regards,
>> Eric van Loon