[Soekris] Maximum throughput on Soekris 4521

[Christian van den Bosch]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Harald Kubota wrote:

> This is a bit less than 100MBit/s what it could have been theoretically.

Bear in mind that the kernel will most likely be doing store-and-forward,
unless you the NIC driver was compiled to support direct forwarding, so
unless the application you were using buffer-stuffs (i.e. writes a packet
or two ahead of what it's got acks for) this will have a significant
impact on throughput. What was CPU load like? what happens if you do two
transfers at the same time? in the same direction? in opposite directions?

cjb

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