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To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance?
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Vincent Poy wrote:

> > Note also that FreeBSD can easily saturate 100 Mbps Ethernet.
> 
>         It meets the spec when shipped but the bends, curves, temperature
> and other factors do affect the performance.  I guess a good way to test
> the cable is with FreeBSD since it's the only real OS I've seen that can
> do like real world speeds.  The only thing is that has anyone really saw
> 12 Megabytes/sec Full Duplex under FreeBSD?

There again, any network installer worth their salt will test the cable when
in-situ, after the 'dust' has settled...

Fastest I've seen on my setup (doing anything useful) is around 9Mb/sec going
from my WinNT box (with Intel Pro 100B) to my FreeBSD -current box (also with
Pro 100B).

So far, transfers from FreeBSD to WinNT are _always_ slower than transfers
from WinNT to FreeBSD - which considering the hardware and write-overhead etc.
- you would have though the opposite should be true... I guess NT ain't a
great operating system after all... <no kidding? :)>

-Karl


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