From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 16 11: 6:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F3937B538 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5E4132EE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:05:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA49022; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:11:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:11:14 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Terry Lambert Cc: cjclark@home.com, Juergen Nickelsen , Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows 2000 isn't that smart, but everything else is Message-ID: <20000216141114.B48524@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000215210935.C45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:43:51PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:43:51PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I saw this a lot from a FreeBSD box (3.4-RELEASE) that was connected > > > to the same Ethernet segment with two NICs (in different logical > > > networks). It really got on my nerves, and Windows 2000 was not > > > involved. > > > > Shouldn't put two NICs from one host on one physical LAN. Hurts > > network performance. I have yet to hear a good reason to do it. > > Because when Windows NT did it on a 4 processor box with the > interrupt processing for each NIC bound to a different processor > (e.g. non-symmetric multiprocessing), they blew the doors off > of Linux when it came to file server performance? What was the network configuation? The performance was processor-NIC limted rather than by network bandwidth? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message