My li'l home LAN consists of two boxes, connected via a 100base network. I have a D-link DFE-530TX (via-rhine driver) in my workstation, and an Rtl-8139-based card in my server/nat box. My server box runs FreeBSD, and my workstation runs Debian Linux.
I have never been satisfied with my networking performance... The fastest I could ftp large files from the server into workstation is 1.5MBps, and a little faster in the other direction. Recenlty I've bought a new harddrive for the workstation, a fast one (7200rpm, with 2MB cache), and decided to first install FreeBSD onto it (to give it a try on a workstation). Believe it or not, I started getting 5.5Mbytes transfers both ways right out of the box. I don't mean to start BSD vs. Linux discussions, but just want to find out *why* my box performs worse under Linux than under FreeBSD... Then I installed potato instead of that FreeBSD installation (i.e., the same harddrive, same hardware all the way). The transfer rates are pretty dull again. :^( Any thoughts? Some specs of my hardware: ,----[ Workstation ] | Celeron 300A | D-Link DFE-530TX nic | Running Potato `---- ,----[ Server ] | Pentium 166 | RTL-8139 nic | Running FreeBSD `---- -- Arcady Genkin
