> however, i have seen 6Mbyte/s ftp's, altho i never really tried too hard
48 mbit/s
> a naive untweaked test (just now) of NFS transfers topped out at ~2Mbyte/s
> but this is with 2.0.34, not the keen new knfsd in 2.1.x that is tunable
> to diff blocksizes.
16mbit/s
>
> so, jack, apparently drivers have imrpvoed =). these numbers
> were acheived on PII's, intel FX/BX chipsets.
I don't think your testing substantiates that claim; raw tcp transfer
max is 94mbit. A good 100mbit card and drivr should be able to get this
as a sustained transfer rate with netperf. Using higher level protocols
(nfs, ftp) aren't really valid, since those programs have some overhead
beyond bare tcp or udp. Sorry to be a nitpicker, but I think it is valid
to get down and dirty with raw tcp/udp when evaluating network hardware
and drivers.
Jack
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