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From: cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda)
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 09:10:56 GMT
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In article <CEnnD9.H8w@agora.rain.com> davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman) writes:
>
>   Now, let me say that attempting to test network performance by using
>an 8bit ethernet card is rediculous. You're testing the speed that you
>can write the shared memory on the board - not the networking code. 

No, you're testing them all.  I was interested in comparing the
performance differences due to operating system structure.  The five
different configurations I measured had identical hardware, widely
varying software OS structure, and widely varying performance.