You can also use a direct connection.  run a cable from one system to
another.  The wires on the end of the cable have to be changed to allow this
connection. This is probably the fastest.
MTU sizes can be defined ... etc.  The switch idea works really well though
even for 100 clients database clients.

Jeff Bach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Johanson [SMTP:fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:34 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Advice
>
> We do it with ethernet and atm cards on AIX.  For a while we had one large
> AIX box dumping SYBASE over the atm while the rest of the backup was over
> the ethernet.  Just have different names in the dsm.opt file.
>
>
> At 02:55 PM 4/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Our TSM server is on one ip subnet and a large system I backup every
> night
> >about 300GB of data nightly is in the same room as the TSM server but on
> >another ip subnet.  I would like the data going into TSM from that large
> >system to be switched not routed to TSM.
> >
> >Does anyone know if TSM can listen across multiple nics on different ip
> >subnets if I put another card in the TSM server on the same subnet as the
> >large system I backup nightly.
> >
> >Thanks
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