Theoretical Samba File Server

[Brian Kelsay]

http://www.amastore.com/ama-store/dlinetet4por.html

Here's a link to one by DLink.  You could use the model number found
here to help you search for the best price.  It does load balancing and
other neat tricks.

Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Kelsay" <bkelsay at home.com>
To: <sbrendtro at home.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: Theoretical Samba File Server

> You might look into a single network card with multiple interfaces.  I
> saw one in Micro Warehouse catalog that had four NICs built into one
> card.   You might not have room for four NICs and you might have
trouble
> w/ the IRQs and I/O addresses.  Then again you might have the same
> trouble with my suggestion, but it is worth looking into.
>
> Adaptec makes a four port card called the Quartet.  I saw it on
> pricewatch.com for $349.
>
> Brian Kelsay
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven L. Brendtro" <sbrendtro at home.com>
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:53 AM
> Subject: Theoretical Samba File Server
>
>
> > I am researching to build a killer linux file server.  Here is what
I
> am
> > thinking:
> >
> > Dual Athlon box with ICP Vortex RAID card, 7 or so 36GB LVD/160 Hard
> drives,
> > 1 GB ram, etc.  I have multiple users who will need to
simultaneously
> > sustain a throughput over the network of around 10MB/sec (80
> Mbit/sec).
> > This is close to saturating a 100Mbit/sec network interface.
> >
> > With an ICP card maintaining random access throughput of over 200
> MB/sec,
> > and the only bottleneck in the network cards, I was considering
> installing
> > multiple network interfaces on the server, say 4 of them.  Each of
> these
> > will be connected to a dedicated switch, each to a dedicated
> workstation.
> > From there the switches will make connection back to a local area
> network.
> > I will then run multiple SAMBA daemons, each with thier own unique
> netbios
> > server name (FILESRV1, FILESRV2, etc.), but each having share names
> that
> > point to the same mount point on the file system.
> >
> > With this setup, I theoretically should be able to draw around 80
> Mbit/sec
> > per interface.
> >
> > My question is this.  Does anyone see any problems inherent to this
> setup?
> > Could I possibly run into problems with SAMBA sending too much
> broadcast
> > traffic, reducing the throughput for my other network segments on
the
> same
> > box?
> >
> > Any comments/suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven Brendtro