The only thing that I can think of is you may have to increase some of
your network
settings on the your RS/6000's, but you should see an improvement in the
amount
of data being backed up.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Wayne Merchant [SMTP:Wayne_Merchant/FALLSCHURCH/VBHNotes AT VBH DOT COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, October 22, 1997 12:14 PM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Fast Ethernet, CISCO Catalyst Switches, and ADSM
>
>Our company is in the process of changing from a FDDI backbone to a
>switched network using CISCO Catalyst switches. We are currently utilizing
>dual FDDI adapters in our eight RS/6000's. We are running AIX 4.1.4 on all
>of our RS/6000's and ADSM 2.1.5 on our R40 that has four SCSI 3590-B1A tape
>drives in a 3494 Tape Library that is serially connected to the R40 server.
>We are backing up numerous clients including, RS/6000, SUN, Novel,  NT and
>AS/400.
>
>Dare I ask if there any issues or potential problems we might encounter ??
>
>Thanks