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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2085 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:11:09 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidus.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!dvs From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: 386bsd ethernet throughput Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 12:45:15 GMT Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany Lines: 16 Message-ID: <dvs.65.730557915@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <1993Feb20.193501.9637@cs.wisc.edu> <C2rJAy.1MI@unix.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de In article <C2rJAy.1MI@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: >: In article <1m5372INN1pd@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> stubbs@ccen.unp.ac.za writes: >: >Second I read in the comp.os.linux.FAQ that the FTP throughput in 386BSD >: >is only about 5Kb/Sec, is this true? >: I sure don't think this is true... I've seen people quoting speeds of >: about 250Kb/s on the bsd groups. But I haven't done it myself, so >: perhaps someone else should comment... >FTP from my 486 386BSD machine to my sun gives me 2.7E02 Kbytes /sec >almost consistently. This depends very much on the ethernet card type: an ne2000 clone here got only about 5 KBytes/sec, while the same machine made 190 KBytes/sec with an original 3c503. There was some rumour about a patch against slow ne2000 on comp.unix.bsd . Hope this helps, Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.