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Dustmann · 04-09-2006, 05:54 PM

mbossman2 - Thanks for the well organized informative post! You answered many of my questions. I do have a few more now after absorbing some of that.

So then a workstation is the individual PC that I would find in a computer lab, or say my home pc? How do the servers communicate with each other in a multi server setup? Are they part of the network like a workstation, connected via say a gigabyte ethernet port?

How does the network infrastructure affect the servers? If a whole network is setup using 100mbps cabling/switches/etc, and the servers are capable of say a 1000mbps, does that 1000 get divided up among the 100mbps cabling, or is the whole system limited to a speed of 100mbps. I am just making up some numbers from what I see on my computer and (what I think would be) a typical network, is this childsplay for a real server?

04-09-2006, 05:54 PM	#4
Dustmann Member (7 bit) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Iowa Posts: 70	mbossman2 - Thanks for the well organized informative post! You answered many of my questions. I do have a few more now after absorbing some of that. So then a workstation is the individual PC that I would find in a computer lab, or say my home pc? How do the servers communicate with each other in a multi server setup? Are they part of the network like a workstation, connected via say a gigabyte ethernet port? How does the network infrastructure affect the servers? If a whole network is setup using 100mbps cabling/switches/etc, and the servers are capable of say a 1000mbps, does that 1000 get divided up among the 100mbps cabling, or is the whole system limited to a speed of 100mbps. I am just making up some numbers from what I see on my computer and (what I think would be) a typical network, is this childsplay for a real server?