On 20-Lok-00, Greg wrote:

> I've replaced my 486-DX2/66 motherboard with a triton chipset based
> Pentium-120 machine (which oddly has IDE on the motherboard, but not a
> floppy controller!).  I'm using the same ne2000 clone cards for now.
> 
> 'ping -f' to a local host now runs at over 900 pps and ftp says:
> 
>     put:    11618494 bytes sent in 00:20 (555.88 KB/s)
> 
>     get:    11618494 bytes received in 00:12 (914.16 KB/s)
> 
> YEAH!

Right. But I was wondering about the performance of the good oldy
ISA based 10MBps NICs. Converting the 10 million bits into megabytes
gives about 1,19 megabytes, of course. And I have let my self
understand that there is quite some overhead around and that the
real world performance wouldn't come near but...

I have two NetBSD machines. The other is 100MHz, the other 133MHz
Pentium. Both have ISA NE2000 cards. Throwing a file with ftp
from either to the other gives overall performance of 1,1MB/s.
First I saw that, I was all like:
Well, Really, this is something!
 
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