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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dual host SCSI ? Pointers please...
Date: 26 Nov 1996 21:43:32 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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In-reply-to: Metod Kozelj's message of Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:53:01 +0100
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[Metod Kozelj]

|   >         If I could find a way using Fast Ethernet of getting, say,
|   > 5Mbyte/sec from DOS to Linux/FreeBSD I would consider that too.
|   
|   100BaseTX ethernet offers (theoretically of course) about 10Mbps
|   throughput. So, in practice, you shouldn't have much problems to get
|   5Mbps. I think the only problem could arise on DOS side, if it couldn't
|   deal with that large flow of data from/to net adapter.

Not just theory - I have measured 79 Mbit/s between two Pentium-133 boxes
running FreeBSD, with 100BaseTX and a crossover cable. That was almost a
year ago - I believe the results would better today.

Getting 5 MByte/s from DOS is another matter entirely.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no