Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:30:47 -0500 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@mcs.net> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>, "Mikhail Evstiounin" <evstiounin@adelphia.net> Cc: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Not such good networking performance with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199912160333.VAA15357@Mailbox.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912161622511.82832-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
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I have a LinkSys 10/100 autosensing 5 port ($129 at CompUSA) switch and it moves butt in full duplex mode. I can move 36 megs from my 98 box to the FBSD box (100/full) in 7.52 seconds. Win98 box is a P3/500, 256M, 10krpm UltraSCSI IBM Ultrastar FBSD box is a K6-3/450, 128M, EIDE discs. On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 16:24:22 +1300 (NZDT), Juha Saarinen wrote: >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mikhail Evstiounin wrote: > >> Are your card connected to hub? Hub cannot operate as full duplex device - >> only half-duplex. I had awful performance on my system (10Mbps interface) >> both in FreeBSD and NT environment when I set full duplex on my cards - >> something like 30 times slower. Nevertheless, I saw a switch 10/100 in Best >> Buy for $120 ( 4 ports, either D-Link or Linksys ). Didn't test it yet. > >No, I've got a switch here. Supposed to handle FD... but I'll try half as >well. > > >Cheers, > >Juha > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Win96 just transformed from vaporware to bugware PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 5762 A3CC 8EA5 8542 9666 222B 61A9 2558 ** Tag(s) inserted by Bandit Tagger98 - http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c918704 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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