Wes Peters wrote... > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote... > > > We have two of the NetGear GA620's here, and they work quite nicely. I > > > use > > > them for testing throughput via Gig-E on our switches. Mine is running in > > > a lowly PII/233, on a 32-bit x 33 Mhz slot, and can push bits at 320 Mbps. > > > The GA620 will work in any 32 or 64 bit, 33 or 66 Mhz slot. A 64x66 slot > > > would probably speed things up appreciably. > > > > I doubt a faster PCI interface would really speed things up. My guess is > > that you've got some other bottleneck other than PCI bandwidth. Is the CPU > > pegged on either end? > > Not on mine, it's running about 45%. The other end is much faster, a PII/400, > and is just discarding the packets, so it's not sweating.
The window size tweaks may help you somewhat. > > I would recommend that you make sure you've got a couple of things tweaked, > > they may increase your performance somewhat: > > > > - set your MTU to 9000, unless of course you're going through a switch that > > can't handle it > > Not yet, that's part of what I will be developing. ;^) Due to architectural > limitations, we may not be able to support jumbo frames larger than 8k. That's unfortunate, since you won't be compliant with the pseudo-standard. With 1500 byte packets, you probably won't be able to get much better throughput than what you're getting now. I can get about 340Mbps with standard sized packets with a couple Pentium II 350's, and the CPU isn't pegged on either end. Ken -- Kenneth Merry k...@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
