I by no means all knowing in this area, but you only have one token, and a 16mb
pipe.  You could have several NIC's but your limit is wire speed.  If you had
seperate rings then you would see more performance, but IMHO you won't see an
increase by doing that with the info you've provided.  I don't think you'll see
a great increase going to 100mb Ethernet either.  Once again my opinion.

Rod Richeson
AMX Systems, Inc.
rricheson AT amxinc DOT com

Cindy Cannam wrote:

> Has anyone tried to "route" ADSM network traffic to and from specific NICs
> on individual clients? We're thinking that our backup and restore processes
> might run more quickly if the data were pushed through one wire on the
> network (unfortunately a 16 non-switched token ring NIC right now, but soon
> to be upgraded to 100Mb Ethernet), with restore data running through
> another NIC (same token ring config) from the same client but a different
> connection on our router chassis. In theory, this may work, but I've not
> seen any information concerning this type of set-up in any ADSM
> documentation.
>
> This truly may be something for the network folks to puzzle over (they live
> for this, don't they?). The NICs are PCI, and we're running TCP/IP on both
> server and clients, with MVS as the ADSM server.
>
> Has anyone tried something like this? I'm interested in hearing whether
> this is even something that can be pursued in real life....
>
> C.L.Cannam
> General American Life Ins. Co.
> St. Louis, MO