From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 23:09:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF2A16A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:09:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean.hafeez@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14EC43D46 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:09:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean.hafeez@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so49368nzo for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:subject:date:to:x-mailer:from; b=VAWc6Gc9EZeCTlBGhiVMUVKkev8sSXvSmF4qUO7y1yUKQIKqhpKn/GpjsgHmAPoEkW0iUepokS4l/7iVqZwOTw8mzZhNtRNWe+p/+IdFJQLs4RoBZ31UUCs9KRswEmbE2jz2WJCEUSW9iuKtPe5qOcmS/QZl7CNgN13/5apDsAU= Received: by 10.37.12.49 with SMTP id p49mr272574nzi; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.105? ([67.109.14.227]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 7sm333567nzn.2005.07.26.16.09.28; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <491A44A6-1409-4D9E-AEFD-2B8665D52BA7@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:09:23 -0700 To: "Andrew P." X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) From: Sean Hafeez Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 100Mbit network performance - again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:09:30 -0000 I get 60+Mbytes between my FreeBSD 5.4 and Mac via NFS. I get 40-60Mbytes between my FreeBSD 5.4 and Windows 2K box via Samba. Good NICs help. Intel 10/100 Pro. Google for Samba tuning also. -Sean On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Andrew P. wrote: > Hello all! > > I remember being able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between two Win95 > workstations with NE2000 $10 NIC's installed, connected via BNC cable. > I am now able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between all kinds of Windows > 2000/XP machines with all kinds of cheapest 100Mbit ethernet hardware. > > But I have never ever exceeded 8-9Mbytes/s between a Windows machine > and a FreeBSD box - _never_. Be it Samba, different ftp/http servers, > different FreeBSD versions (4.x/5.x), with ipfw enabled or disabled, > etc., - the speed always hovers around 7-8Mb/s. I know it's not > critical, I know I should've upgraded to Gigabit hardware long ago, > but is there something wrong? > > I tried different linux distros, but they all seem to be even > slower. Wazzup?.. > > Thanks, > Andrew P. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >