From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 15 19:36:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CDE14F04 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:36:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tforrest@Mailbox.mcs.net) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by Mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA15357; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 21:33:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <199912160333.VAA15357@Mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "Juha Saarinen" , "Mikhail Evstiounin" Cc: "Mike Tancsa" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:30:47 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2000) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Not such good networking performance with FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a LinkSys 10/100 autosensing 5 port ($129 at CompUSA) switch and it moves butt in full duplex mode. I can move 36 megs from my 98 box to the FBSD box (100/full) in 7.52 seconds. Win98 box is a P3/500, 256M, 10krpm UltraSCSI IBM Ultrastar FBSD box is a K6-3/450, 128M, EIDE discs. On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:24:22 +1300 (NZDT), Juha Saarinen wrote: >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mikhail Evstiounin wrote: > >> Are your card connected to hub? Hub cannot operate as full duplex device - >> only half-duplex. I had awful performance on my system (10Mbps interface) >> both in FreeBSD and NT environment when I set full duplex on my cards - >> something like 30 times slower. Nevertheless, I saw a switch 10/100 in Best >> Buy for $120 ( 4 ports, either D-Link or Linksys ). Didn't test it yet. > >No, I've got a switch here. Supposed to handle FD... but I'll try half as >well. > > >Cheers, > >Juha > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Win96 just transformed from vaporware to bugware PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message