On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On a 68k mac via ethernet???  Ouch!  MkLinux only seems to get ~300K/sec
> on a 7600/120... and that's _not_ just disk overhead, because I tried
> uploading to /dev/null and it still only sent at 300k/sec.  :-) 

Wow, really? I'd think that with the same ethernet chip as the AVs and DMA
support (not the same DMA as the AVs though), it'd be able to do MUCH
better than 300K/s. Sheesh, even my 33MHz 386 with a $10 ISA bus NE2000
clone can sustain about 770K/s. :)

What was at the other end of the transfer, and what OS was it running? Was
this a busy network? My tests were done with a P166 w/3C595 (PCI card) on
my 3 computer LAN in my bedroom, and there was no other traffic on the
net. If 300K/s is really the best MkLinux can do... well, ick! Their
driver must really suck :)

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