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Date:      Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:45:44 +0000
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jeff Wheat <jeff@tad.cetlink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP Tuning? 
Message-ID:  <4629.826073144@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:34:48 EST." <199603052234.RAA01470@tad.cetlink.net> 

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Jeff Wheat wrote in message ID
<199603052234.RAA01470@tad.cetlink.net>:
> 	Is there a FAQ regarding TCP/IP tuning? I am running a news and
> a web server on a p100 w/32 megs RAM. I have an ne2000 in the box now and
> the performance seems to drop lower and lower as traffic increases. Is there
> a good example of tuning for such a server?

Get a better ethernet card... the ne2k's have a poor performance in
general because they don't have any on-card RAM to store packets. Get
either a SMC card or one of the DEC DC21040 based cards.

Gary




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