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Bonjour: What impact on network?
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I've only ever used Bonjour in my home for a handful of Macs to chat. I've been trying to set up a Jabber server at work, but haven't been having much luck. It occurred to me that Bonjour would require no configuration, but at what price? It must be sending some type of broadcast burst over the network. Would 100 PCs each using a Bonjour chat client adversely affect operations? Anyone have any experience with this?
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#2
might be a problem if you're on AppleTalk, otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.
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#3
> Would 100 PCs each using a Bonjour chat client adversely affect operations?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation...-TPXREF112
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#4
[quote MacMagus]> Would 100 PCs each using a Bonjour chat client adversely affect operations?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation...-TPXREF112
Unless there are 100 monkeys using the 100 PC's to write 100 novels.
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#5
[quote MacMagus]> Would 100 PCs each using a Bonjour chat client adversely affect operations?

http://developer.apple.com/documentation...-TPXREF112
I'll consider this a 'definite maybe'. It sounds like it depends on how often devices are leaving and entering the network. Probably not bad for Printers or maybe network gear, but not a good plan for all user to be out there blanketing the network with broadcast calls. I guess that I'll keep working on the Jabber server.
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#6
If Bonjour is less chatty than AppleTalk it must be virtually non-existent, because AppleTalk has a bad rep, undeserved in my experience.

At work, with about 200-400 Macs and many PCs accessing a common AppleShare server it's never been a problem. Our biggest network improvement was going from 10BaseT to 100 a few years ago.

We ditched all of the little AppleTalk printers --- you can't kill an hp 5MP --- only because we moved to Cisco VOIP and the IT dorks managed to configure part of it in such a way that caused conflicts with some. Many of our big printers are still AppleTalk, and without issue.

The little Bonjour HP's we now have forget what they're doing half the time, and won't tell the Mac if they are out of paper. Only the Tiger Macs could reliably see Bonjour printers. With Panther it was hit and miss. Sometimes new tech doesn't mean progress.
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#7
I can see the status lights on the switch ports for my network. At times I know nothing else is going on with my network but Bonjour, I see the activity LED blink maybe a couple times a minute. The broadcasts are only for Bonjour traffic that all network devices should see, the Bonjour "chats" would only be between those network nodes chatting with each other. They are not broadcast like the discovery and announce of services messages are.
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#8
I have been at OS Con and had 100 people show up on my Bonjour chat in Adium and that was the least of the problems on those networks.
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#9
Cool. Thanks for the info. Maybe I will try it then. Now I just need to find a chat client that supports Bonjour in Windows.
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#10
[quote brianlmoon]I have been at OS Con and had 100 people show up on my Bonjour chat in Adium and that was the least of the problems on those networks.
Our small graphics dept uses Adium over Bonjour to chat between ourselves without having to use the company email system. Works great and doesn't seem to cause any noticeable network traffic.
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