From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 09:48:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA05958 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:48:23 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA05952 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:48:22 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA13465; Wed, 15 Mar 95 10:41:40 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503151741.AA13465@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Routing and Ethernet To: Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr (Andres Vega Garcia) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 95 10:41:39 MST Cc: davidg@Root.COM, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503151338.OAA12465@django.inria.fr> from "Andres Vega Garcia" at Mar 15, 95 02:38:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : David Greenman wrote: > > >> The 700-800 kb/s limit for 3com509 is probably because 1) i measured this by > > ftp > >>transfers so actual rate can be more.2) We have here Twisted Pair made networ > >k > >>which is much more slow then coax... > > > > 1) FTP is *not* the way to measure performance. > > What would be a good test? The test depends on what you want tested. Avoid ttcp if you want to see the effect of latency on client/server, since it will average one latency across the entire transaction because of the sliding window. Otherwise, ttcp is probably what he meant. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.