[mythtv-users] myth on separate subnet

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Thu Jan 14 11:09:41 UTC 2010


Andre Newman wrote:
> With any half reasonable switch there's no measurable benefit in segregating, the switch will do that for you anyway just by switching. If you mess up the cisco configuration performance will get a lot worse and sorry to say that if you knew how to get good performance out of Cisco you wouldn't be posting this question!
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Good point.  I've got a cisco expert at work helping me.  Always helps 
to befriend the IT guys.... ;)
> Keep it simple, very doubtful that anything you have will be able to flood a gbit nic, you could team the ports but unless you have at least a 6 disk raid 10 with 10k SAS drives and 100+ client workstations I wouldn't bother. 
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> I used to have a dual subnet system (for different reasons) and it was always a pain, not just with MythTV either. As soon as possible I flattened the network and things are much easier now, with dual subnet almost every service is more complicated.
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Sounds like the prudent plan is keep it single subnet, get a gigabit 
module for the switch, and call it a day.  Fine idea.  Thanks guys!

Mark


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