From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 1 21:39: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E53C14C15 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) id 124djF-0002A0-00; Sat, 01 Jan 2000 22:38:59 -0700 Message-ID: <386EE514.D30CA88D@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 22:41:40 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Babkin Cc: ph0d@scr3am.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price References: <386E9C18.A73FEAEE@bellatlantic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message