From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 16 7:29:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2DF14E00 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:29:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14844; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:29:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36EE78BC.1AA3B0BB@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:29:00 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Amancio Hasty , Cory Kempf , Bill Paul , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? References: <199903151726.JAA13276@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > I guess I should take a look at your software and get a card or two > > in for testing. I'd like to see what we can do between two Tigon > > equipped systems with a Xylan switch in the middle. Most of our > > testing on our Gigabit modules so far has been done with a SmartBits > > packet generator, but I don't really believe the numbers until I've > > seen some real host-generated data streams. > > Heh. It would be quite funky if we were able to generate bits fast > enough to become your preferred host platform for host traffic > generation. You already are our favorite host platform for IP testing; I setup our test network with FreeBSD hosts at both ends of the lab. ;^) For pure packet generation, it's hard to beat a SmartBits (if you can afford the price). > That would almost mandate some words from you we could use for bragging > purposes. 8) Maybe I'll write a Daemon News article? We need to get some of the GigEth cards working first, though. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message