Subject: Re: ATM NIC support
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/26/1997 11:21:31
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:02:58 +0100 (MET) 
 Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

 > I got ~5.1MB/s with TCP between a P133 and a P166.
 > Significantly less than fast ethernet with a tulip card.
 > 
 > But I don't think it's the card - a DEC 350 was not
 > much better (~5.4).
 > I used ttcp with its default buffer sizes to measure.

I've found that to really get any benefit out of ATM, you really need
to tweak your applications to use it... This, combined with the
cost of ATM makes me wonder "Why?", but whatever :-)

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