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Date:      Tue, 05 Sep 2000 23:16:34 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        nimrodm@email.com, nimrodm@bezeqint.net
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Increasing network performance
Message-ID:  <24032.968188594@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:49:13 %2B0200"
References:  <20000903234913.A394@localhost.bsd.net.il>

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> Talking about performance - what type of performance can I expect to
> see when two machines are connected using 100Mbps full-duplex
> switch (assuming all are full-duplex of course)?
> 
> We're talking Celeron-300 machines here, if that matters and Windows
> gets about 20Mbps (but of course, this may be due to small receive
> window - I'm not sure).

Celeron 300 should have no problem saturating 100 Mbps Ethernet using
reasonable Ethernet cards (fxp or de) - in fact you can do it with a
P-166 or better (measured this myself with FreeBSD more than 3 years
ago).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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