From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 24 21:34:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14233 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 21:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14166 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 21:33:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA09306; Sun, 24 May 1998 22:33:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3568F480.8799FAF2@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 22:33:04 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicole CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicole wrote: > I have been playing with a Packet Engines Gigabit Ethernet hub and ethernet ca > rds that have drivers for FreeBSD. (third party) I want to write up an article/p > aper on my testing highlighting FreeBSD. So far I have tested transfering files > via mv and ftping, (so far I have reached 15.6MB/s via ncftp) and I have planned > some NFS tests. However I would like to know what tests would best show off Fr > eeBSD and the Gigbit ethernet. I've used tcpblast, found in ports and packages, for throughput testing. I don't know how it'll stack up to your requirements, I was using it to test a dial-up router with a variety of 28.8, 33.6, and 56K modems, which isn't on the same planet, let alone in the same ballpark. > I think that this writeup could help a great deal in showing FreeBSD as a Real > World, we can play with the Big Toys OS. However I would like to know what tests > would best show off FreeBSD and the Gigbit ethernet. Amen. Try'em all. If you want to do a REAL(tm) test, find someplace you can beg, borrow or steal a SmartBits. If I had a GigE card, I'd offer you the services of the lab at work for a weekend, but we don't have a Gig card for the SmartBits yet. (I'm not even sure they have one yet.) We're still waiting for our layer-3 interface cards so we can make the SmartBits do funky stuff at the IP layer. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message