Thanks for responding,
          
     I'll try "big" file transfers to /dev/null from around the subnet and 
     see how fast they go.  From the sound of it, 300KB/sec would be fast 
     enough for the job (I'm really getting way too anal about this...).  
     Also, what is ttcp?
          
     I'm curious about another thing.  I have a MacCon Nubus NIC too.  The 
     docs say that it has 64KB memory.  The kernel reported it as only 32
     KB.  Is that a kernel limitation?
          
     Thanks!
     Eric Holcomb
     
     


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>         That is exactly what you should get.  
>        IIci 25Mhz 030   w/MacCon NuBus-A , 32KB memory (NetBSD 1.3) 
>        ping from Cyrix233MX -> IIci ~(5.5-6.3)ms 
>        Max thruput to a Cyrix233MX w/ISA 10BaseT 3COM NIC (NetBSD 
> 1.3.2)  
>         ftp> get ghostscript-5.10.tgz 

Actually, you should probably try:
        ftp> get ghostscript-5.10.tgz /dev/null

to get the network speed, although ttcp is better...  ;-)

>         3594574 bytes received in 11.75 seconds (298.83 KB/s) 

~300KB/s sounds a lot like the disk speed.  I don't know if the
network speed is much higher, though.  There's a lot of overhead
in handling the nubus interrupts--I don't know how much room for
improvement there is, or how much improving the interrupt 
overhead would improve the network performance.

-allen

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                    Allen Briggs - briggs@ninthwonder.com