From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 16 11:39: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles549.castles.com [208.214.165.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724B815227 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06781; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910161830.LAA06781@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: griffin@blackprojects.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Balancing Outgoing traffic over 2 nics, and nic limitations. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 20:34:28 +0200." <40062.940098868@verdi.nethelp.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:30:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 > :-) The issue here isn't big frames though, it's little frames. You don't appear to have noticed that, and it's potentially very relevant. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message