2.1 network performance

Andy Arvai (arvai@scripps.edu)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 09:58:18 -0800 (PST)

We are using a PC running linux 2.0.34 in a data collection application
to transfer data from a Windows95 PC. We have a 100Base-T network and
our tcp/ip performance between these machines is quite poor (about 12
mbits/sec). We tried 3 ethernet cards and 4 drivers. However when we
upgraded to version 2.1.131 of the kernel the network performance
improved substantially (about 40 mbits/sec). This is with the same
network driver. I checked the Changes file for 2.1, but there was
nothing obvious which would explain the performance improvement. Does
anyone have any idea what could have changed in the kernel to account
for this?

Andy

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