[4152] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Poor network (routing) performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Aug 22 16:02:51 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: 21 Aug 1996 22:25:56 +0100
In article <199608210122.AA21462@voltec.com>,
Joseph Possert <joseph@voltec.com> wrote:
> I realize that Linux won't be as fast as a dedicated router, but I
>feel that the performance should be alot better than this.
> Does anyone else suffer from this problem?
This sounds like the problem is with the other stacks. If you are talking
to remote Solaris 2.4/2.5 machines Im afraid you may well see this kind
of behaviour while downloading from them, until their users have upgraded
to the fixed Solaris.
Linux is faster than most low end dedicated routers. It starts to get busy
with a few PCI ethernet cards, it won't even be noticing load on a 28.8
modem link with even the slowest of 386SX machines.
Alan
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