Re: Possible TCP Problem with RH6.2 talking to Solaris2.6/2.7 (fwd)

From: James Sutherland (jas88@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 12:44:11 EST


On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > THe ncftp client should be quite sane
> >
> > Why not just use a very simple client/server: read/write a big chunk of
> > zeros, and time it? No disk involvement, limited memory involvement, just
> > a measurement of the network transfer rate.
>
> He's posted netperf data too - ncftp isnt a great bench tool but it agrees
> fairly well with netperf here - its not that

Yep. The next question is, why the difference in performance between
switched and crossover? Something latency related, or ...?

James.

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