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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:13:12 -0600
From:      Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>
To:        jab@rock.anchorage.net
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
Message-ID:  <199609161612.QAA20759@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <01BBA3A2.11B93340@jabpc.rtfm.com> (message from Jeffrey Barber on Mon, 16 Sep 1996 07:38:33 -0800)

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>>>>> Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net> writes:

> Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:

> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms

> On my Linux box I get a ping response of:

> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1

> Big difference here. Please shed some light on this for me.

Yes, there is a big difference: 0.356 ms < 1.1 ms, so your FreeBSD
host is faster when ping'ing localhost.

Are you saying even though it's faster than Linux, it's still too
slow?

-- 
Sean Kelly                          
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory    kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA                http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/



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