From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 04:59:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF55216A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:59:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from casey@phantombsd.org) Received: from phantombsd.org (dsl231-036-158.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.36.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A023A43D45 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:59:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from casey@phantombsd.org) Received: by phantombsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6A00C102EFE; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (tomcat.phantombsd.org [192.168.1.6]) by phantombsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A37102C19; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:59:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42E71499.3030708@phantombsd.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:59:05 -0700 From: casey User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew P." References: <25096.199.181.134.212.1122420447.squirrel@mail.phantombsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on eagle.phantombsd.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.4 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 100Mbit network performance - again X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:59:08 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: >On 7/27/05, Casey Scott wrote: > > >>>Hello all! >>> >>>I remember being able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between two Win95 >>>workstations with NE2000 $10 NIC's installed, connected via BNC cable. >>>I am now able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between all kinds of Windows >>>2000/XP machines with all kinds of cheapest 100Mbit ethernet hardware. >>> >>>But I have never ever exceeded 8-9Mbytes/s between a Windows machine >>>and a FreeBSD box - _never_. Be it Samba, different ftp/http servers, >>>different FreeBSD versions (4.x/5.x), with ipfw enabled or disabled, >>>etc., - the speed always hovers around 7-8Mb/s. I know it's not >>>critical, I know I should've upgraded to Gigabit hardware long ago, >>>but is there something wrong? >>> >>>I tried different linux distros, but they all seem to be even slower. >>>Wazzup?.. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Andrew P. >>>_______________________________________________ >>>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>> >>Keep in mind that the Windows TCP/IP window buffers are not optimized the >>same way as FBSD or Linux. >> >>Casey >> >> >> >> >No doubt about that. Any thoughts about how to make them communicate >more effectively? > >Personally, I don't think it's just window buffers. I think the whole >darn TCP/IP stack misconfiguration plus maybe not perfect NIC drivers >are the reason for underperformance. I know that most of the real >"mistakes" must be on the Windows side, but that's not an excuse for >FreeBSD/Linux to not be at least 99%-Windows-networking-compatible. > >Andrew P. > > Your best would be google for that. Its been so long ago, that I don't remember anything useful. Sorry, Casey