Subject: Re: Network card performance.
To: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/11/1995 20:05:46
Mark_Weaver@brown.edu  wrote:
 > I believe the SMC/WD 8013 is the highest-end card.  I have one, the
 > SMC Elite16 Ultra, which gave me 360k/sec FTP rates over the local
 > Brown network (multiple hops) with my 486-dx2/66 vlb 16mb running
 > NetBSD-current.

That's icky.

When I first committed the if_ep driver into the tree, I was running 
ttcp between two identical machines both with 3c509's and NetBSD 0.8
and was seeing rates of ~1010kb/sec.

Of coures, FTP is not a good performance benchmark.