Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:46:28 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Pete Mckenna <pmckenna@uswest.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <200001072146.NAA01836@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C789C.DD290597@softweyr.com> <v04210104b484a826ab4b@[128.113.24.47]> <385F2FFD.CA594829@softweyr.com> <386D66D4.B3DB5EB3@softweyr.com> <387501B2.C01766F@uswest.net> <3876471F.B2EDAA1E@softweyr.com>
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:We attacked Rich's switch in the lab. We plugged ports 1-4 into 4 10/100 :ports on a SmartBits 2000 test chassis and banged it with full-duplex bi- :directional streams between ports 1<->2 and 3<->4. I am happy to report :that it passed 100% of traffic at all packet sizes except 64 bytes, where :it was still able to pass 99.415% of wire speed, or 591,716 packets per :second. This is quite impressive for such an inexpensive switch, and should :perform adequately for my 3-system NFS nightmare I'm building at home. ;^) : :-- : :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC :wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ That is simply amazing. You know, even just two years ago this kind of performance would have cost a considerable amount of money. I'm really happy with my apartment LAN. Both the D-Link and the LinkSys 5-port 100BaseT switches operate wonderfully for me (now that Bill Paul and I finally tracked down the D-Link ethernet card bugs!). I think the next thing I'm going to do with NFS is figure out why I can't get wire speed in both directions simultaniously over full-duplex 100BaseTX links. I mean, gee, it's *only* 20 MBytes/sec! - BTW, Kudos to the KAME folk, the ipv6 and ipsec stuff looks like it's going to turn into a winner! IPSEC is going to be one really good reason for needing ever-faster cpu's :-). -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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