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Re: Question on performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Aug 16 09:39:43 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:57:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: ATPlack <ATPlack@scj.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Aug14.154345-0400_edt.107101-2761+551@vger.rutgers.edu>
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, ATPlack wrote:
> Please remember that a PC using an ISA bus is limited in bandwidth.
>
> 3COM estimates that 380k/sec is the peak for an ISA bus and their card.
> NE2000 lists about 185k/sec. This is with the Novell ODI stack in DOS.
>
> PCI bus or EISA bus cards are better.
>
> Sounds like Linux is beating these DOS tests by a landslide. 500k sounds
> good to me. :) However, Novell servers have shown an 800k throughput or
> more with an ISA card on fast machines so it is not incredible.
I've seen up to 900kb/s on ftp transfers between 2 P90's doing little else
using 3c509's on a quiet ethernet. Typical, on our now more crowded net
with busier systems is 400-600kb/s.
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