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To: Jeff Wheat <jeff@tad.cetlink.net>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: TCP Tuning? 
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 00:45:44 +0000
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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