On Sun, 6 May 2001, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> 5 byte headers, two forms thereof one for end nodes, one for
> interconnects. I actually think ATM is the best thing since sliced bread
> and certainly wish I had it here on my desktop...
When it works... but when it goes wrong it can be bloody horrible to pick
apart and fix. Especially when you're running multiple VLANs on it.
There again, any form of virtual networking gets complicated once you
start talking about seventy-odd different VLANs being connected together!
The experience I had at Lboro was with 3Com's ATM kit which was, frankly,
pants in the long run. Too much of it broke, too often; but then a lot of
that was to do with crappy server-end drivers with memory leaks and
dead-end code in them making Netware servers go bang. Oh, and switch
extender cards breaking just over a year after installation. And cooling
fan modules failing in the 622Mb core switches without any warning tones
or lights, thus cooking the laser source and frying the core network.
I could go on, but I guess you get the picture!
G
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