From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 10:53:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21608 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21597; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id MAA26137; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:44:13 -0500 Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma026135; Mon Sep 16 13:43:57 1996 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 16 Sep 96 13:43:59 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 16 Sep 96 13:43:43 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: John Dyson , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jab@rock.anchorage.net Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:43:40 +0500 Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: John Dyson > 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 ======================================