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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
Date: 8 Oct 1993 19:20:24 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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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an outdated driver, I know David has spent a lot of time on some of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.

-Guido
>-- 
> Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
> 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
> Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
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