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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