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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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