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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386bsd ethernet throughput
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Date: 1 Mar 93 11:12:55 GMT
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In article 9637@cs.wisc.edu, jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes:
>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...
>

In ideal conditions, with one 386bsd box (486/25, WD8013 hacks etc) and a SPARC
clone (SPARC 1+ equiv), I got about 600k/sec in either direction, always writing
to a memory file system :-)

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