From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 21:02:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA05384 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:02:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA05349 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA23151; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:37:18 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603060507.PAA23151@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: TCP Tuning? To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:37:17 +1030 (CST) Cc: jeff@tad.cetlink.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4629.826073144@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Mar 6, 96 00:45:44 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer stands accused of saying: > > 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. Good advice, wrong justification 8) NE2000's have onboard memory, but require programmed I/O to read it. The DEC cards have no onboard memory (other than a FIFO), they busmaster directly to main memory. > Gary -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[