> > Of course its a switched network with full duplex operation. But now
> > that the general answer is that it is not a limitation of the nic card
> > I am going to look elsewhere. I was not to sure if it was actually a
> > limit myself, its just that I observed it on two different machines.
> > They however were not huge powerhouses, one was a p2-450, and one was a
> > dual p2 333. Both running real new versions of 3.3-stable.
>
> FWIW, FreeBSD 3.x with an Intel Pro 100B/100+ card can saturate a 100 Mbps
> Ethernet with something like a P-166. This is with maximum sized frames,
> running ttcp or Netperf. You *don't* need a huge powerhouse with FreeBSD
> :-)
The issue here isn't big frames though, it's little frames. You don't
appear to have noticed that, and it's potentially very relevant.
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