Poor networking performance
My li'l home LAN consists of two boxes, connected via a 100base
network. I have a D-link DFE-530TX (via-rhine driver) in my
workstation, and an Rtl-8139-based card in my server/nat box.
My server box runs FreeBSD, and my workstation runs Debian Linux.
I have never been satisfied with my networking performance... The
fastest I could ftp large files from the server into workstation is
1.5MBps, and a little faster in the other direction.
Recenlty I've bought a new harddrive for the workstation, a fast one
(7200rpm, with 2MB cache), and decided to first install FreeBSD onto
it (to give it a try on a workstation). Believe it or not, I started
getting 5.5Mbytes transfers both ways right out of the box. I don't
mean to start BSD vs. Linux discussions, but just want to find out
*why* my box performs worse under Linux than under FreeBSD...
Then I installed potato instead of that FreeBSD installation (i.e.,
the same harddrive, same hardware all the way). The transfer rates are
pretty dull again. :^(
Any thoughts?
Some specs of my hardware:
,----[ Workstation ]
| Celeron 300A
| D-Link DFE-530TX nic
| Running Potato
`----
,----[ Server ]
| Pentium 166
| RTL-8139 nic
| Running FreeBSD
`----
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Arcady Genkin
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