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From: cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda)
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
Message-ID: <1993Oct9.015400.8763@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 93 01:54:00 GMT
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In article <294eho$h4q@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Oct8.085554.9345@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
>>Chris Maeda <cmaeda@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>system			codebase	kbytes/s
>>>
>>>NetBSD 0.8		BNR2		320		
>
>>Well, rampant speculation might place the blame on your cards, or perhaps
>>an outdated driver, I know David has spent a lot of time on some of
>>the network drivers, better performance is likely.
>
>>I regularly get 400+k/sec out of my cheapo DEC DEPCA card on a 386-20sx
>>with FreeBSD, and I don't think there are enough significant differences
>>between NetBSD 0.8 and FreeBSD for it to be attributable to the OS.
>
>I am getting 500k+ between my FreeBSD and a sun ipx. And that with an 8
>bit wd8003ep. Thanks to the ed-driver.

More likely thanks to the sun ipx.