Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:34:28 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: griffin@blackprojects.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Balancing Outgoing traffic over 2 nics, and nic limitations. Message-ID: <40062.940098868@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 13:25:23 -0500" References: <199910161325230440.0DE208AE@207.109.8.249>
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> Of course its a switched network with full duplex operation. But now > that the general answer is that it is not a limitation of the nic card > I am going to look elsewhere. I was not to sure if it was actually a > limit myself, its just that I observed it on two different machines. > They however were not huge powerhouses, one was a p2-450, and one was a > dual p2 333. Both running real new versions of 3.3-stable. FWIW, FreeBSD 3.x with an Intel Pro 100B/100+ card can saturate a 100 Mbps Ethernet with something like a P-166. This is with maximum sized frames, running ttcp or Netperf. You *don't* need a huge powerhouse with FreeBSD :-) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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