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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Questions ????
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Date: 20 Feb 93 19:55:40 GMT
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(Richard Stubbs) writes:



>Second I read in the comp.os.linux.FAQ that the FTP throughput in 386BSD
>is only about 5Kb/Sec, is this true?
Not true. Here is a script proving it (wzv is a sun on the same lan)

Script started on Sat Feb 20 20:48:40 1993
guido@gvr[101] ftp wzv
Connected to wzv.win.tue.nl.
220 wzv FTP server (Version 4.26 Tue Dec 29 22:33:03 MET 1992) ready.
Name (wzv:guido): 
331 Password required for guido.
Password:
230 User guido logged in.
ftp> cd /
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> lcd /tmp
Local directory now /tmp
ftp> get vmunix.generic
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for vmunix.generic (1540165 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
1540165 bytes received in 5.7 seconds (2.6e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> put vmunix.generic /dev/null
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /dev/null.
226 Transfer complete.
1540165 bytes sent in 7 seconds (2.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
guido@gvr[102] ^Dexit

Script done on Sat Feb 20 20:49:52 1993

>Richard Stubbs              | Planet Earth is blue and
>stubbs@ccen.unp.ac.za       | there is nothing I can do !
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