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From: tkerwin@morpheus.wustl.edu (Tim Kerwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: 19 Nov 93 14:58:19 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
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muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:

>With the latest net2 code (the new Linux networking code) I got
>quite reliable networking. And got the highest transfer rates I saw on
>our LAN so far: more than 700kb/s with ftp get (Sun to Linux).

Indeed.  I just started running Linux, and I've been trying for the
past two weeks to find the "network instability" I keep hearing about.
I've been pounding on it with ftp, nfs, pcnfs, X, etc. with no
problems, and the performance is impressive.  Can someone post a
specific description of networking problems in pl13?

-- 

Tim Kerwin
Washington University Medical School 
St. Louis, MO, USA