Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:46:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction (Unix vs NT) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990423203338.2095L-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990423180711.A14514@la.best.com>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 11:34:22PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I have a 100baseT network in my home. There are 4 Windows based > > systems (3NT and Win98). My hub shows >30% when I transfer files from > > one of my MS machine's to another MS machine using drag and drop. The > > %1 led lights up with FreeBSD. I see 200-400KB/sec (just like a few > > other people have been seeing on the list) when I FTP to my FreeBSD > > version 3.1 system. I tried ftp'ing files to my NT server. The only > > activity when I started the file transfers was an occasional > > heartbeat. What I recorded was 630-650KB for two files to NT. The same > > two files going to FreeBSD averaged 340-353KB. I have a few 16MB > > tarballs that I will try later. > > Well, you might have a misconfiguration somewhere. Here's my story of > how I got mine configured to maximum performance. > > I was working with my 100baseTX network last night and pulled 2.02MB using > FreeBSD -> FreeBSD (both 3.1-stable) and > 1.8MB using Win98 -> FreeBSD 3.1-stable, > by final configuration over leechftp in win98 and ncftp in FreeBSD. > > Hardware setup: > (1) server is a p133 running FreeBSD 3.1-stable with a > Netgear DEC-chipset 10/100 NIC. > (2) user machine is a celeron 450a running Win98 and FreeBSD 3.1-stable > using a 3com '905B NIC, on a ASUS P2B-S. > > It was pulling 88Kps before because I was forcing both NICs to go > full-duplex through a Netlux 10/100 hub which obviously wasn't handling > full-duplex itself. Switching to half-duplex got me the 1.8MB rate > from Win98 to fbsd transfering a 35MB file, over 3 tries. > > .... You guys desperately need to get some better hardware: ftp> get big /dev/null local: /dev/null remote: big 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,2,20,192,7) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'big' (52926402 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 52926402 bytes received in 4.92 seconds (10.26 MB/s) Can't change modification time on /dev/null to Fri Apr 23 21:20:33 1999 ftp> both machines are FreeBSD with fxp cards in them and a Hawking 100mbit switch in the middle. I can get better transfers when the file is less than 20megs in size, about 11.5Mb/sec becasue the entire file gets cached in ram. both machines are pretty hefty... a k6-233 and a dual PII-400, but even my 586/133 with no CPU cache can slurp files at just under 5megs/sec (it's got an xl0 card) you get what you pay for. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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