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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:54:47 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
Message-ID:  <199609161554.JAA02862@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com>

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Jeffrey Barber writes:
> Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
> 
> bash$ ping localhost
> 
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms

vs.


> On my Linux box I get a ping response of:
> 
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms

Hmm, it looks like the Linux box is about 3X slower than FreeBSD.  I'm
not sure, but in my math class .1 ms is faster than 1ms.


Nate


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