From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Nov 1 09:58:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA28960 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 09:58:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA28953 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 09:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01771; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:58:03 -0700 (MST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA29782; Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:58:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:58:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711011758.KAA29782@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Cc: Petri Helenius , Mike Tancsa , dg@root.com, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fxp0 and full duplex In-Reply-To: <199711010835.AAA08688@MindBender.serv.net> References: <199711010803.KAA14082@silver.sms.fi> <199711010835.AAA08688@MindBender.serv.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Do you know, for a fact, that MS IP stacks (from Win95 thru NT Server) > are significantly less efficient than the BSD variety? Yes, on *exactly* the same hardware, Win95 networking is about half again as slow as FreeBSD networking. (In case you missed the point, this is *exactly* the same, meaning nothing has changed, disk, card, etc..) This can be demonstrated on *many* different machines in my office, all of which are configured differently, from laptops to desktops. Nate