Re: Everybody needs one of these!

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

what were the netcards in the linux boxes, how much memory was in them,
were they doing anything else at the time, what processors, what media did
you use - you see the data flow rate depends on much more then the just
the switch.


On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Richard H. Fifarek wrote:

> 
> 
> We just got a Cisco 10/100 Switch in at work (ATM coming soon!), and I did
> a ftp between two Linux boxes:
> 
> 641071104 bytes received in 114 secs (5500 Kbytes/sec)
> 
> Like sucking water through a fire hose!
> 
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