Schamil Wackenhut <sw@wacke.org> writes:
> I did some benchmarking in my private network today, and i saw that
> the udp transferrate between my server(NetBSD 1.6.2/GENERIC/ipf
> disabled) and my firewall(OpenBSD 3.5/GENERIC/pf disabled) (both
> have 100mbit ethernet link) is down to only ~25MBit/s. TCP transferrate
> is ok (90MBit/s). What can be a reason for such slow udp traffic?

I'd read TCP/IP Illustrated, volume 1, to learn the answer, but
in general UDP tends to be pretty slow unless you implement all the
nice things TCP does, at which point you have TCP.

Perry