ethernet bandwith problems

[Josh Paetzel]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 09:50 am, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:08 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>LeifEriccson wrote:
> >>>hi there
> >>>
> >>>i got a wrap-board from pcengines(.ch) with an amd geode cpu and
> >>>two ethernet interfaces. this board is working with freebsd 6.0
> >>>and the ethernet interfaces with the sis driver. actually i did
> >>>some tests with the iperf tool, and i wondered why i just get a
> >>>perfomance up 37 MBit/s. maybe somebody of you got a clue.
> >>
> >>37MBit/s isn't too bad for a geode I don't think..
> >>
> >>Eric
> >
> > 37 Megabytes per second is reasonable.  At that point you are
> > disk-bound
> >
> > 37 megabits per second means that there is something wrong.



> 37Megabytes per second is over 100mbit speeds.
>
> 37Megabits per second is roughly 4Megabytes per second, about 40%
> of 100megabit speeds. Seems a little low, but 37Megabytes per
> second isn't quite possible over 100megabit.
>
> Eric

Yes, 37 Megabytes/sec is over 100mbps speeds....Weren't we talking 
about gigE ??

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel