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> > That's not very impressive.  To eliminate the influence of disk I/O, you
> > might want to test network throughput using ttcp or something similar.  I'd
> > recommend using ping to check for packet loss at the same time.  You
> > shouldn't see any packet loss if you're sending between two machines on the
> > same network segment.
> > 
> 
> Humm, tcpblast shows 4.0MB/sec.  Granted this isnt an empty net either,
> fairly busy I would imagine.  

Try connecting two systems with a crossover cable, and run ttcp. FreeBSD on
a PPro-200 can *easily* saturate a 100 Mbps Ethernet segment.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no