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From: d87-mal@orinoco.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist)
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 12 Oct 1993 04:16:51 GMT
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In article <29db3j$g5j@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
In article <1993Oct9.015400.8763@beaver.cs.washington.edu> cmaeda@cs.washington.edu (Chris Maeda) writes:
>In article <294eho$h4q@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>>I am getting 500k+ between my FreeBSD and a sun ipx. And that with an 8
>>bit wd8003ep. Thanks to the ed-driver.
>
>More likely thanks to the sun ipx.
Actually, unlikely. The Sun driver misuses the Lance chipset buffering and
has a max throughput of about 3Mbits/S -- about 1/3 the possible.
What driver? SunOS 4? 5? BSD4.4? Send and/or receive?
I have seen ~1MB/s when ftp'ing big (3+MB) files from an ipx to an hp730.
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Mats Lofkvist
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