Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:43:40 +0500 From: "David Alderman" <dave@persprog.com> To: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jab@rock.anchorage.net Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link Message-ID: <A3E87D3E15@dasa.ppi.com>
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> From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net> > Reply-to: dyson@FreeBSD.org > > 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 > Is the ping code the same on both Linux and FreeBSD? On older SCO boxes it always says 0ms (and their TCP/IP is not all that great). I would think ftp (or anything else) would be a better test of the TCP/IP stack. I didn't see the original post so please accept my apologies if I'm just blathering. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================
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