Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 22:41:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: ph0d@scr3am.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <386EE514.D30CA88D@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912312337480.19243-100000@vanity.scr3am.com> <386E9C18.A73FEAEE@bellatlantic.net>
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Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve
> this speed on an empty network. With two machines
> connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex)
> I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer
> and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running
> in opposite directions at the same time, when the
> network is otherwise idle. Cheap hubs (including that
> D-Link) tend to choke even at moverate load and lose
> packets but good hubs have no such problem.
> I've ran 14 FTP transmissions in parallel through 7
> cards connected to this hub with quite good results,
> the average of total speed was over 7.8MB/s
On a switch running full duplex on all ports, you should be able to get
roughly 14 x 8MB/s with the same test. I'll let you know how it goes
Monday night after I beat it up in the lab at work.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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