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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:11:14 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org>, Kris Kirby <kris@hiwaay.net>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:43:51PM %2B0000
References:  <20000215210935.C45552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <200002161843.LAA16011@usr02.primenet.com>

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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


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