Hello Carlos, Am 2008-10-10 10:55:22, schrieb Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe: > Hi, Mr Konzack,
Mrs. ;-)
> Thank you very much for your time and guidance.
>
> In fact, our cabling is in poor condition, right now, so we're budgeting
> to replace all of it soon, with a new CAT6 harness. I'll arrange to replace
> also the switches - that will allow us to move to GB ethernet in the
> workstations
> at the end of current leasing period (next year).
>
> However, our uplink to the the server room is a single 1GB fiber link.
> Actually, there are two links, but that's only for redundancy, it's not
> trunking.
> There are about 20 users, 10 of which are tipical windows office users -
> mostly local data and processing, network only for web, e-mail and printing.
> The remaining users are doing debian etch, including remote home and a lot of
> ssh -XC sessions. Do you think that only one link will be enough?
Normaly it should do...
I have a 3Com SuperStack with 4 GBit and 24 10/100MBit links where my
two FileServers and the two Multimedia/Devel Stations are connected to
the GBit links and the rest of the network to the 10/100MBit links.
Since ALL workstations mount /home over NFSv4 I had no problems in the
last 4 years using even NFSv3 while v4 was broken.
If you can not upgrade the WHOLE network at once, I suggest to check
(and maybe upgrade) at least the Server->Switch FiberOptic cable. I had
found at customers several times old and porous FiberOptic cables.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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