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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: NetBSD TCP/IP network benchmarks
Date: 12 Oct 1993 04:16:51 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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References: <294371$aga@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <294eho$h4q@wzv.win.tue.nl> <1993Oct9.015400.8763@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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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.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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