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To: Andres Vega Garcia <Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: Routing and Ethernet 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 95 14:38:07 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 14:10:44 -0800
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>: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> wrote:
>  
>>> The 700-800 kb/s limit for 3com509 is probably because 1) i measured this by
>> ftp
>>>transfers so actual rate can be more.2) We have here Twisted Pair made networ
>>k 
>>>which is much more slow then coax...
>>
>>   1) FTP is *not* the way to measure performance.
>
>	What would be a good test?

   There are several programs that test TCP and UDP throughput. "ttcp" is the
one that I use. It's important to not involve disk I/O.

-DG