Vincent Poy wrote: > > Note also that FreeBSD can easily saturate 100 Mbps Ethernet. > > It meets the spec when shipped but the bends, curves, temperature > and other factors do affect the performance. I guess a good way to test > the cable is with FreeBSD since it's the only real OS I've seen that can > do like real world speeds. The only thing is that has anyone really saw > 12 Megabytes/sec Full Duplex under FreeBSD?
There again, any network installer worth their salt will test the cable when in-situ, after the 'dust' has settled... Fastest I've seen on my setup (doing anything useful) is around 9Mb/sec going from my WinNT box (with Intel Pro 100B) to my FreeBSD -current box (also with Pro 100B). So far, transfers from FreeBSD to WinNT are _always_ slower than transfers from WinNT to FreeBSD - which considering the hardware and write-overhead etc. - you would have though the opposite should be true... I guess NT ain't a great operating system after all... <no kidding? :)> -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
