Re: Antwort: SCSI networking?

Pierre Phaneuf (pphaneuf@sx.nec.com)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 11:17:05 -0400

Jes Degn Soerensen wrote:

> Alan> per packet tx/rx irq's are just the current very primitive
> Alan> network card design
> >> Sure, but even 80000 divided by 10 is an awful lot ;-)
>
> Philip> 8000 irqs a second is a lot yes, but it won't kill you.
>
> No, but on top of that you need to have the TCP stack handle all those
> 80000/sec small 1500 byte packets ......

1500 byte packets?

$ netstat -I lhip0
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Collis
lhip0 65280 192.168.50 hiru_h 574 0 794 0 0

That's for an HIPPI-LE (TCP/IP over HIPPI) network interface on hiru. I
hope a SCSI interface would have a good MTU too, even if it is a bit
slower than HIPPI...

-- 
Pierre Phaneuf


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