Fast Ethernet---it's *really* fast!

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@cs.arizona.edu)
Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:55:56 -0700

Yesterday we received a box of de500 Ethernet cards (21140 based).
They can do 10 or 100Mbps and are quite cheap (on the order of $180),
so I wasn't quite sure what to expect performance-wise. Well, here is
the answer:

ftp> get emacs-19.30.tar.gz /dev/null
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for emacs-19.30.tar.gz (9074298 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
9074298 bytes received in 0.889 secs (1e+04 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

9.76 MByte/seconds is *way* better than what I anticipated. We
measured this between two Cabriolets that are clocked up to run at
300MHz. The Linux kernel is version 1.3.79.

--david