From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 8:40:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD24614E5A for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 08:40:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id QAA96521; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:38:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3791F4D2.2000C88A@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:37:54 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincent Poy Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Vincent Poy wrote: > I meant real use as i.e. all the workstations are connected and > the cable is transfering data. Not just during the time period of > installing but throughout the use of the cables life. More machines on the segment shouldn't make any difference, so long as the cable going from the machine to the hub meets the spec. it should be OK... > > A 2gb file? - You could always FTP it from here? > > Hehe, wonder how long that will take Too long... :) > > Yes, it would!... We (as in Unix) have the free Pascal compiler, which > > supports most (if not all) of the Sysutils unit, but it's a long way from > > being able to run on the bosses Windows desktop :-) > > Hehe, maybe some convincing would work :-) I've tried that already - I've emailed Borland/Inprise - and got a lot of like minded friends to email them... As far as I can remember they said they were aware of the demand for a Unix version (no mention of FreeBSD :) - but weren't planning anything at the moment... I got the same from the VMWare people - I got at least 20 people to email them, the replies slowly went from "No plans" through to "We're aware of the demand, but we're looking to make the Linux version stable [etc.] before moving to other platforms" back to the "Will not be developed for FreeBSD"... :( > > Not that the boss is best friends with Windows at the moment (it crashes his > > machine about twice a day, and that's even under NT :-) > > Haha, I'm sure he's a frequent audience of the Blue Screen of > Death too :-) No, his machine just goes comatose... You start having to kill things with Task manager, that fails - so you have to reboot... My WinNT machine does blue-screen on a regular basis. The terminal I setup next to my NT box (running FreeBSD 2.2.5) is still going strong after 600 days uptime though... I'm reluctant to take it down to upgrade (if it ain't broke [for what you do] don't fix it?) Says a lot... :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message