From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 09:43:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19269 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 09:43:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.Sarnoff.COM (terra.sarnoff.com [130.33.11.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19256 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 09:43:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rminnich@localhost) by terra.Sarnoff.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01896; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:38:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 12:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Ron G. Minnich" To: Martin Cracauer cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What choice of 100 mbps Ethernet boards? In-Reply-To: <9601051156.AA25157@wavehh.hanse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Could someone drop me a note what performance I can expect? I'm > considering setting up a tiny (IP-only) subnet with 100mbps for the > machines that are capable and I want to use a FreeBSD machine as a > hub. with the smc cards, and the old neptune chipset in a cluster of 16 machines, grand junction hub: 50 mbits/second tops, but it's easy to get there with small blocks (i.e. 4096 bytes or more). I'm happy. So is my cluster. ron