Re: ConneXion Ethernet Board

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%theory.cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> 23-Nov-97 20:24:05, Roland Pons Roerig 
> (Roland.Pons%lrz.uni-muenchen.de@localhost)
> wrote:
> >Hello all,
> 
> >Does the ConneXion work with NetBSD?
> >It claims to be A2065-compatible. Is it enough for
> >NetBSD? Is there a dedicated driver required?
> 
> Works perfectly under NetBSD. I have one in my A3000.
> 
> >A well known german Amiga magazine has tested
> >this board. They say it is faster and more stable
> >than Ariadne. Does this apply under NetBSD too?
> 
> It could very well be true. I tried sending a 2 MB JPEG file between my Amiga
> (NetBSD) and a P166MMX running NT, 5 MB/s in one direction, 3-4 MB/s in the
> other, according to ws_ftp.

Thats ___impossible___.

10 Mbit/s Ethernet has a maximum transfer speed of about 1 Megabytes/s, _raw_.

It looks like your program has a too crude time measurement ... try to transfer
something like 20 MBytes apiece.

Regards,
        -is