From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 25 07:04:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16727 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [195.1.171.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA16717 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 07:04:36 -0800 (PST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 9173 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Mar 1997 15:04:05 +0000 (GMT) To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more Mac vs BSD (fwd) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:12:54 -0500 (EST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:04:05 +0100 Message-ID: <9171.859302245@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > now what planet were these tests performed on? > > * In Apple's testing on a 10 Mbps Ethernet network, Open Transport > could sustain throughput of 9.6 Mbps. In contrast BSD could only > sustain 7 Mbps (and the venerable MacTCP could only do 2.3 Mbps). > That may not sound like a huge difference, but what about a 100 > Mbps Ethernet network? Open Transport has been shown to sustain 40 > Mbps on those networks - how well will BSD do? Good question. You might want to point to the Netperf results at http://www.cup.hp.com/netperf/numbers/NetperfBrowse.html which among other things have a 100BaseTX result (look under Fast Ethernet) submitted by me a year ago. I measured 79 Mbps between two P-133 hosts running FreeBSD, using SMC 21140 based cards. FreeBSD certainly hasn't gotten any slower since then... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no