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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12440 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3246 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Date: 17 Aug 1994 14:16:17 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 42 Message-ID: <32t63h$i12@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> <CuMF14.BH@gnome.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <CuMF14.BH@gnome.co.uk>, Dr Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> wrote: >Going back to the start of this thread > >dave@odyssey.ucc.ie wrote: >: OK, I keep hearing reference to how Linux networking is not as good >: as FreeBSD and so forth > > >IMHO I dont find NFS on FreeBSD(1.1.5.1) that great. If I NFS mount any >other unix box other than a PC box I have to use a block size of 1k. This is a problem with your network card, and not FreeBSD. >Otherwise I get ring buffer overrun problems on NFS reads. I dont >think this is a code problem just that you cant suck out the data >fast enough on the ISA bus. Naw, just a poor ethernet card. David Greenman's 'ed' driver can pump data in/out as fast as the ethernet will handle it with a decent ethernet card on the ISA bus. With a 16-bit card with a decent buffer-size, you can crank as much data through your system at low loads as you want. (Within reason. I suspect a couple HP's talking to each other at high bandwidths would wipe it out, but then again they wipe out most other workstations at that point. :-) >I assume this problem will go away when >someone provides a driver for an EISA or PCI ethernet card. See above. I've got a 16-bit card in my box and I've *never* had any problems with ethernet time-outs with it, and I've been served/have served NFS disks for a couple years now. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.