Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:27:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Casey Scott" <casey@phantombsd.org> To: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 100Mbit network performance - again Message-ID: <25096.199.181.134.212.1122420447.squirrel@mail.phantombsd.org> In-Reply-To: <cb52064205072616005af207a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb52064205072616005af207a8@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hello all! > > I remember being able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between two Win95 > workstations with NE2000 $10 NIC's installed, connected via BNC cable. > I am now able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between all kinds of Windows > 2000/XP machines with all kinds of cheapest 100Mbit ethernet hardware. > > But I have never ever exceeded 8-9Mbytes/s between a Windows machine > and a FreeBSD box - _never_. Be it Samba, different ftp/http servers, > different FreeBSD versions (4.x/5.x), with ipfw enabled or disabled, > etc., - the speed always hovers around 7-8Mb/s. I know it's not > critical, I know I should've upgraded to Gigabit hardware long ago, > but is there something wrong? > > I tried different linux distros, but they all seem to be even slower. > Wazzup?.. > > Thanks, > Andrew P. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Keep in mind that the Windows TCP/IP window buffers are not optimized the same way as FBSD or Linux. Casey
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