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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: 100baseT through etherswitch ...
To: proot@iaces.com (Paul T. Root)
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Oh, I guess I could show some output. I have to 100Meg cards
on a Cisco switch, full duplex:

20# nettest horton
Transfer: 100*4096 bytes from acesfbsd.iaces.com to    horton
           Real  System            User          Kbyte   Mbit(K^2) mbit(1+E6)
  write 16.6320  0.0167 ( 0.1%)  0.0000 ( 0.0%)   24.05   0.188     0.197
   read  2.7550  0.0333 ( 1.2%)  0.0000 ( 0.0%)  145.19   1.134     1.189
    r/w 19.3870  0.0500 ( 0.3%)  0.0000 ( 0.0%)   41.26   0.322     0.338





In a previous message, Paul T. Root said:
> 
> 
> I'm not sure of the answer, but a tool to show
> you throughput is only as far as ports (actually it
> may be in packages). Nettest, it's some old code from
> Cray, but it still works great. I ported it to FreeBSD
> (wasn't hard). I also ported it to NT (with GNU installed),
> that was a little harder. :-)
> 
> Basically, you run the daemon on one machine (nettestd) and
> the client on the other (nettest remote-host). 
> 
> Cool stuff.
> 
> In a previous message, The Hermit Hacker said:
> > 
> > 
> > Morning all...
> > 
> > 	I have a computer connected to an etherswitch at work,
> > 100baseT...doing an FTP of a 300Meg file to another computer on the same
> > etherswitch, also doing 100baseT, how many MB/s should I expect to see
> > *max*?  Oh, both hosts and the etherswitch are running  half-duplex...
> > 
> > Thanks...
> > 
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
> > 
> > 
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