Re: eth1394 performace

[Michael J. Cohen]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:41 +0000, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> I'm trying to link an iBook and my linux box (kernel 2.6.9-rc4-mm1) via FireWire.
> With static IP addresses, it seems to work, but performance is sloow (compared
> to what I expected;):
> 
> werewolf:/usr/src/linux# iperf -c ibook
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to ibook, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.0.1 port 33155 connected with 192.168.0.2 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec   110 MBytes  91.8 Mbits/sec
> werewolf:/usr/src/linux# iperf -c ibook-fw
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Client connecting to ibook-fw, TCP port 5001
> TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> [  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 33156 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
> [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  90.5 MBytes  75.8 Mbits/sec

Try transferring larger amounts of data. perhaps there is not enough
data to provide a meaningful bandwidth measurement.

HTH,
Michael

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