Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:54:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Adam W. Hawks" <root@pent.ibm.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet bandwidth? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128105408.12486O-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701270557.AAA11085@pent.ibm.net>
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Adam W. Hawks wrote: > I have 2 Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B cards in 2 machines. > The first machine is a Win95 box and the second is a FreeBSD box. > They are connected with a cross-over cable (which causes them to > run at 10Mbps). My question is what should I be seeing when I do > an ftp from one machine to another in terms of the amount of data > per second that is transfered? > When I start up a window with trafshow -i fxp0 it gives me the CPS > that is transfered. This number seems to be lower than I expected. > I get anywhere from 6,000 to 40,000 but it mostly stays around 8,000. FTPing between machines, you should be seeing something around 500kbps or more depending on the disk system and how loaded the machine is at the time. I haven't used trafshow so I can't say how CPS translates to kbps. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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