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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lkg.dec.com!thomas From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Newsgroups: huck@nosc.mil,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FDDI support in FreeBSD Date: 30 Oct 1995 15:32:48 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 22 Sender: thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Distribution: world Message-ID: <472r71$j3c@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <1995Oct19.000429.3069@nosc.mil> Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: netrix.enet.dec.com Keywords: FDDI X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-30 In article <1995Oct19.000429.3069@nosc.mil>, huck@nosc.mil (Craig Huckabee) writes: |> Is anyone using the FDDI support under FreeBSD ? |> I'm thinking about putting a few machines I have online using FDDI |> and I am curious as to how well it works in FreeBSD. It's been very stable for me (but then I wrote it so if it's stable for anyone then that should be me). I'm using it under 2.0.5 as my default network connection. I've also done some testing using ttcp and have gotten quite decent results (receiving at ~94Mb/s using ttcp with 12% idle on a P90 with 512KB PB cache). |> Any replies/horror stories/wisdom/wit that anyone would care to |> share would be greatly appreciated... I'd be interested as well to how well the FDDI support is doing. -- Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com U*X Networking WWW URL: http://ftp.dec.com/%7Ethomas/ Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my Littleton, MA own warped views, etc.