How to reduce propogation times over low-speed frame relay?

[beer]

I'm working for a small realty company. We have remote offices in about ten locations, and we connect to each of them via a 56k frame relay. They primarily use our WAN for email and AS/400 authentication. We primarily use it to use PCAnywhere to help them with computer problems.

The problem is, once you start PCAnywhere, it takes up to ten minuts to get a list of all the hosts on the network. Is there any way I can reduce the propogation delay?

 

[spidey07]

i would suggest NOT using the pcanywhere browsing function. it basically pings EVERY address within that subnet. bad network mojo. Ok for a LAN, but a WAN killer.

Setup each PCanywhere host manually, or better yet...use a dns name so you don't have to track indiviual IPs.

hope this helps!

spidey,

BTW, run some pings to each of the remote sites router ethernet port while you are searching for pcany hosts...you'll be surprised.

 

[UNIX72]

I agree with spidey also replace pcanywhere use VNC its a pretty good remote management for free. With a 56k frame connection that's pretty much what you would expect.

 

[beer]

<< Setup each PCanywhere host manually >>



How would I go about doing this?

 

[spidey07]

add the hostnames of the machines you are trying to connect to in PCanywhere.

VNC is a little cleaner but not as feature packed as PCanywhere, but VNC is nice and cheap.