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Subject: Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((
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Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:
> 944mbps is a very good value, anyway. What we see in our setup are 
> throuput rates around 300mbps or below. When testing with tcpspray, 
> throughput hardly exceeded 13MB/s.

Increasing MTU should help to get better results, as long all devices in 
network support jumbo frames (at least on large files). 9k or even 16k 
might be supported.