From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 1 16:23:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BF314DF5 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 16:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-42.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.42]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA15001; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 19:23:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <386E9C18.A73FEAEE@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 19:30:16 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ph0d@scr3am.com Cc: Wes Peters , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ph0d@scr3am.com wrote: > > I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second > without any complaints.. > > Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve this speed on an empty network. With two machines connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex) I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running in opposite directions at the same time, when the network is otherwise idle. Cheap hubs (including that D-Link) tend to choke even at moverate load and lose packets but good hubs have no such problem. I've ran 14 FTP transmissions in parallel through 7 cards connected to this hub with quite good results, the average of total speed was over 7.8MB/s (started all transfers at once, looked at the time it took the last transfer to finish, divided the total size of all transfers by this time - so, because some of the transfers finished earlier the peak speed was higher). > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > > > was causing it. > > > > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed > > this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed, > > the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message