Adventures in the Evolution of a High-Bandwidth Network for Central Servers

In a small network, clients and servers may all be connected to a single Ethernet without significant performance concerns. As the number of clients on a network grows, the necessity of splitting the network into multiple sub-networks, each with a manageable number of clients, becomes clear. Less obvious is what to do with the servers. Group file servers on subnets and multihomed servers offer only partial solutions

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: LISA
• Authors: Karl L. Swartz, Roger Les Cottrell, Marty Dart
• Keywords: Ethernet, FDDI, LISA 1994, Operating System, Server Network