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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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setup:
	host A: dual pentium III/1GHz (Dell 2450)
	host B: dual pentium III/950MHz (Intel STL2)
	host C: Pentium III/1GHz (Dell GX150)

	all connected at 100Mgb full duplex
	all three are running FreeBSD 4.4.

all three have identical troughput when writing to a NetAPP fileserver ~ 10MBs

but:
	B -> A: ~ 6MBs
	C -> A: ~ 2MBs

Q: why is C -> A so bad?

danny



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