From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 16 18:52:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A35815011 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11ynUT-000M5W-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:51:33 +1300 Reply-To: From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" Cc: "Mike Tancsa" , "Mikhail Evstiounin" , Subject: RE: Not such good networking performance with FreeBSD Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:50:04 +1300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <199912162333.RAA66410@Mailbox.mcs.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's interesting -- I did my testing with Linux and Win2K. I find that I get better performance with FreeBSD than with Linux with old, 10/100Mbps switch (1.1MBps compared to 900KBps with ftp). Guess it depends on the NIC a lot as well. Anyway, it would be nice to have all these things documented... Cheers, Juha > -----Original Message----- > From: Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM [mailto:tforrest@mcs.net] > Sent: Friday, 17 December 1999 12:30 > To: Juha Saarinen > Cc: Mike Tancsa; Mikhail Evstiounin; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Not such good networking performance with FreeBSD > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message