From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 19:36:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08776 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:36:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08768 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:36:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA01391; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:34:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Kwoody cc: "Bond, Jeffery" , "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I'm happy with my NE2000's too. I did a rough performance test by using > > SAMBA. I used the smbclient program to copy a large file from a win95 > > machine to the FreeBSD machine. This utility tells you the average > > throughput when it's done copying. I get around 500kb/sec. Apparently, > > this is close to the theoretical maximum for 10baseT. > > Ive got Kingston combo cards, but am using coax (I think 10base2). I > played around with samba for a bit, but never could get it to work quite > right so put it aside for now. In the process of getting intimate with > sendmail and procmail. :) > > Though now that you mention it, if samba give the through put like that > then wouldnt an FTP session from a 95 to a FBSD box over a local lan give > the same info after a file was transfered? Have to try that. Yeah it does... I have gotten transfews that FTP claims was around 1MB per second. Thats pretty good considering the theoretical maximum is only 1.25MB per second. This was on a very low traffic 10BaseT connected only via a HUB, From a FreeBSD box to an NTW box.