On Thu, Dec 06, 2001, Jon wrote:
> Has anyone done testing on eepro100 and seen really poor performance? I am
> seeing that the eepro100 in SuSE 2.4.7 and above is 50% slower than than
> 2.4.2 in RH 7.1 I am doing a simple test with ttcp against another RH server
> and then SuSE vs SuSE or vs the RH system. In all cases the eepro100at best
> shows 39mbs. In modules.conf I am setting options="0x30" that forces 100mbps
> Full Duplex, this is also reflected in dmesg. With the new intel e100 it is
> possible to get 60mbps on SuSE. Is there something in the Kernel build or
> Driver build that is multi-casting or filtering that may cause this? Any
> ideas at this point would help. BTW, I am using SMP Kernels on all the
> systems.
Jon,
No great thoughts other than to report that I did netpipe-tcp (from
Debian woody) testing of my eepro100's using a custom SMP 2.4.9
kernel, and easily saw 90 megabits per second. Sorry I couldn't help
more.
Take care,
Daniel
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
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