From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 24 15:32:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9348837BCA9 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 33610 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Feb 2000 23:32:35 +0000 (GMT) To: didi@Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dc0 wierdness with Compex Freedomline From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:48:35 +0100" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:32:35 +0100 Message-ID: <33608.951435155@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, it is not. It is 100Mbps upstream and 100Mbps downstream. You cannot get > 200Mbps in one direction. FDX (Full Duplex) simply means that the RX and TX > cables are used simultaneous. Due to the small ethernet frame size, it is > next to impossible to get the full speed for data transmission. FreeBSD has been able to do that (full speed) for several years now. I measured this myself way back in June 1997, between a P-133 and a PPro-200. You can do much better with current hardware. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message