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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.help:9436 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7017 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!morpheus!tkerwin From: tkerwin@morpheus.wustl.edu (Tim Kerwin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux Date: 19 Nov 93 14:58:19 GMT Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <tkerwin.753721099@morpheus> References: <2brq1b$a8j@news.ysu.edu> <2bs065$1gd@news.cs.tulane.edu> <CGC6nH.J08@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <16C841041BS85.U001295@HNYKUN11.URC.KUN.NL> <2c7g1pE847@uni-erlangen.de> <MUTS.93Nov17072938@compi.hobby.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.wustl.edu muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes: >With the latest net2 code (the new Linux networking code) I got >quite reliable networking. And got the highest transfer rates I saw on >our LAN so far: more than 700kb/s with ftp get (Sun to Linux). Indeed. I just started running Linux, and I've been trying for the past two weeks to find the "network instability" I keep hearing about. I've been pounding on it with ftp, nfs, pcnfs, X, etc. with no problems, and the performance is impressive. Can someone post a specific description of networking problems in pl13? -- Tim Kerwin Washington University Medical School St. Louis, MO, USA