Andrew P. wrote:
On 7/27/05, Casey Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all!
I remember being able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between two Win95
workstations with NE2000 $10 NIC's installed, connected via BNC cable.
I am now able to reach 11-12Mbytes/s between all kinds of Windows
2000/XP machines with all kinds of cheapest 100Mbit ethernet hardware.
But I have never ever exceeded 8-9Mbytes/s between a Windows machine
and a FreeBSD box - _never_. Be it Samba, different ftp/http servers,
different FreeBSD versions (4.x/5.x), with ipfw enabled or disabled,
etc., - the speed always hovers around 7-8Mb/s. I know it's not
critical, I know I should've upgraded to Gigabit hardware long ago,
but is there something wrong?
I tried different linux distros, but they all seem to be even slower.
Wazzup?..
Thanks,
Andrew P.
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Keep in mind that the Windows TCP/IP window buffers are not optimized the
same way as FBSD or Linux.
Casey
No doubt about that. Any thoughts about how to make them communicate
more effectively?
Personally, I don't think it's just window buffers. I think the whole
darn TCP/IP stack misconfiguration plus maybe not perfect NIC drivers
are the reason for underperformance. I know that most of the real
"mistakes" must be on the Windows side, but that's not an excuse for
FreeBSD/Linux to not be at least 99%-Windows-networking-compatible.
Andrew P.
Your best would be google for that. Its been so long ago, that I don't
remember anything useful.
Sorry,
Casey
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