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2.5.1.7 The AS/400 as a Router
The AS/400 is a router (data passes though it) when twinax attached Network
Stations send or receive data from the Internet or other servers. At this time,
limited performance data is available. The following two tables show results
when data is read from an NT server through an AS/400 system to a Network
Station.
Table 12. Load times (Seconds )
AS/400 Model 400-2132 (V4R2)
IBM Network Station Series 300 Release 3, using 10MB Ethernet to AS/400
300Mhz PC NT server using 16MB TR to AS/400
2628 LAN IOPs, 15MB of data. 8K TFTP block
#NS Time
(sec)
AS/400 Util
(%)
AS/400 Throughput
(KB/s)
1 44 11.2 340.9
2 48 16.9 625.0
3 57 18.1 789.5
4 71 25.7 845.1
5 90 24.4 833.3
10 158 29.9 949.4
15 232 34.9 969.8