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Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
Message-ID: <29v12n$ea@knobel.knirsch.de>
From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Date: 18 Oct 1993 21:16:07 -0000
References: <294371$aga@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <294eho$h4q@wzv.win.tue.nl>
<1993Oct9.015400.8763@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <29db3j$g5j@u.cc.utah.edu> <D87-MAL.93Oct13192905@orinoco.nada.kth.se>
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d87-mal@orinoco.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist) writes:
>In article <29db3j$g5j@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> In article <1993Oct9.015400.8763@beaver.cs.washington.edu> cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda) writes:
> >In article <294eho$h4q@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
> >>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.
> Actually, unlikely. The Sun driver misuses the Lance chipset buffering and
> has a max throughput of about 3Mbits/S -- about 1/3 the possible.
>What driver? SunOS 4? 5? BSD4.4? Send and/or receive?
>I have seen ~1MB/s when ftp'ing big (3+MB) files from an ipx to an hp730.
Today: SparcStation 10 - Solaris 1.1 (SunOS 4.1.3)
486/50 MHz - Elite Ethercard 16 (WD8013) - Slackware 1.0.4
(kernel 0.99.13)
~2 Mb via ftp resulted in >600 Kb/sec. Not too bad.
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