From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 15:33:19 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 DA7A015664 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tforrest@Mailbox.mcs.net) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by Mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA66410; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:33:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <199912162333.RAA66410@Mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "Juha Saarinen" Cc: "Mike Tancsa" , "Mikhail Evstiounin" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:29:57 -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 Well, when I had both machines on a x-over cable I was able to move the same 36 meg file at 7.49 seconds. So, I'd say its probably a limitation of how fast the FBSD box can receive data. Or it could be the top limitation of Win98 getting data out of the box. Im sure the switch would have no problem with more than 4.7MBps if pushed. On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:15:07 +1300 (NZDT), Juha Saarinen wrote: >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM wrote: > >> 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. > >If I've got it right, that's 4.7MBps -- had an Intel InBusiness switch >here for a while, and got 6.7MBps out of that one. ;-) > >-- 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: OS/2: Bill Gates' worst nightmare! 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