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From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
To: jab@rock.anchorage.net (Jeffrey Barber)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:00:01 -0500 (EST)
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> Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
> 
> bash$ ping localhost
> 
FreeBSD number:
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms

Linux number:
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms

Looks like Linux is slower to me...

John