Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:57:41 +1030 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serious networking (em) performance (ggate and NFS) problem Message-ID: <20041118002741.GC66483@squash.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <419BE654.6020705@mac.com> References: <200411172357.47735.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> <419BE654.6020705@mac.com>
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ping only tests latency *not* throughput. So it is not really a good test. - aW 0n Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:01:24PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: Emanuel Strobl wrote: [ ... ] >Tests were done with two Intel GigaBit Ethernet cards (82547EI, 32bit PCI >Desktop adapter MT) connected directly without a switch/hub what kind of bandwidth you max out using that. Or use ping with -i & -s set to reasonable values depending on whether you're using jumbo frames or not. If the problem is your connection is dropping a few packets, this will show up better here. Using "ping -f" is also a pretty good troubleshooter.
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