Steve Ramage wrote:
I have a small server at the specs are as follows Duron 900 Gigabyte GA-7ZM 512 MB PC133 SDRAM 1x 120 GB HDD 1x 200 GB HDD Two networks cards: 1x D-Link DE-528TX (10 Mbps) 1x Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop Adapter (1000 Mbps) I just added the Intel Pro/1000 adapter, as a replacement to an older D-Link DFE-538TX ( 100 Mbps)
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If I run: ping -f -s 60000 172.27.2.27 from the three machines and target my Windows machine, the other machine with a 1 Gbps card, I can get about 45%, usage out of the network, according to windows, so the
<SNIP> Have you considered that with a low end 900 MHz and slow FSB (133 MHz) that you are going to have a hard time filling a Gigabit pipe? Think about it. Gigabit represents ~125 MB/s. I have a similar low-spec machine and have a hard time getting more than ~70 MB/s across the PCI bus. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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