From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 10:24:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA23820 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:24:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA23815 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:24:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA01910; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:23:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199711201823.MAA01910@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? To: kwoody@citytel.net (Kwoody) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:23:41 -0600 (CST) Cc: shovey@buffnet.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Kwoody at "Nov 20, 97 09:03:33 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Kwoody said: > > > On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > How slow do you consider slow? I would think on a small network that a > > > card running ne2000 would be adequate for most purposes. > > > > > > > I ran ne2000s till I saw the thru put difference I got from intels > > therexpress cards - the price difference was slight compared to the > > thruput - I mean I actually had to recompile my kernels to increase buffer > > space (nmbclusters) > > I'm fairly happy with the ne2000's here at home. I only run 2 machines > with them (though I do have a 3/60 also hooked up too) so for me > performence is not really in issue. > > Though it might be intesting to see what kind of throughput I do get from > this little network. And one can get them to work better by increasing > the nbccluster in the kernel? (just want an excuse to recompile it again! :)) > > Anything in FBSD that I can use to measure network performence? (aside > from acutually buying a network monitor) Well, I submitted nettest to ports just after 2.2.5 was announced (so it didn't get on the CD). Look on ftp.freebsd.org in ports-current/net. It's some really cool (and old 1992, I think) software from Cray. Basically, you start the server on one machine (nettestd) and on the next run nettest something like: proot horton:/aces/home/proot $ nettest -f -b 40k sentry 30k 100 Transfer: 30720*100 bytes from horton.iaces.com to sentry Real System User Kbyte Mbit(K^2) mbit(1+E6) write 2.6240 2.6167 (99.7%) 0.1667 ( 6.4%) 1143.29 8.932 9.366 read 6.5340 0.9500 (14.5%) 0.0500 ( 0.8%) 459.14 3.587 3.761 r/w 9.1580 3.5667 (38.9%) 0.2167 ( 2.4%) 655.16 5.118 5.367 100: 30720 Add somethings wrong here, because I should have 100 running here. Oh great. Anyway, it compiles easily on SunOS, Solaris and FreeBSD. Paul. -- HOW CAN YOU TELL IF TWO ADULTS EATING DINNER AT A RESTAURANT ARE IN LOVE? "Just see if the man picks up the check. That's how you can tell if he's in love." --Bobby, age 9