Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:34:52 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Kwoody <kwoody@citytel.net> Cc: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is NE2000 network card OK? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971121193203.1342C-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971121121439.20521E-100000@mybsd.net>
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> > > I'm happy with my NE2000's too. I did a rough performance test by using > > SAMBA. I used the smbclient program to copy a large file from a win95 > > machine to the FreeBSD machine. This utility tells you the average > > throughput when it's done copying. I get around 500kb/sec. Apparently, > > this is close to the theoretical maximum for 10baseT. > > Ive got Kingston combo cards, but am using coax (I think 10base2). I > played around with samba for a bit, but never could get it to work quite > right so put it aside for now. In the process of getting intimate with > sendmail and procmail. :) > > Though now that you mention it, if samba give the through put like that > then wouldnt an FTP session from a 95 to a FBSD box over a local lan give > the same info after a file was transfered? Have to try that. Yeah it does... I have gotten transfews that FTP claims was around 1MB per second. Thats pretty good considering the theoretical maximum is only 1.25MB per second. This was on a very low traffic 10BaseT connected only via a HUB, From a FreeBSD box to an NTW box.
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