Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 19:30:16 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: ph0d@scr3am.com Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Message-ID: <386E9C18.A73FEAEE@bellatlantic.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912312337480.19243-100000@vanity.scr3am.com>
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ph0d@scr3am.com wrote: > > I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second > without any complaints.. > > Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve this speed on an empty network. With two machines connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex) I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running in opposite directions at the same time, when the network is otherwise idle. Cheap hubs (including that D-Link) tend to choke even at moverate load and lose packets but good hubs have no such problem. I've ran 14 FTP transmissions in parallel through 7 cards connected to this hub with quite good results, the average of total speed was over 7.8MB/s (started all transfers at once, looked at the time it took the last transfer to finish, divided the total size of all transfers by this time - so, because some of the transfers finished earlier the peak speed was higher). > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > > > was causing it. > > > > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed > > this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed, > > the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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