[eepro100] Re: netperf & transmit path performance

Andrey Savochkin saw@saw.sw.com.sg
Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:45:42 +0800


Hello,

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:36:28AM -0400, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Over a half duplex 10Mbps connection: 
> TCP STREAM TEST to 198.168.10.67
> Recv   Send    Send                          Utilization       Service Demand
> Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed              Send     Recv     Send    Recv
> Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput  local    remote   local   remote
> bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/s  % L      % L      us/KB   us/KB
> 
> 57344  57344   4096    300.07        6.96   3.52     2.16     41.461  101.728

In 10Mbps full-duplex you would see about 9Mbps actual throughput.
In half-duplex mode I doubt that you can gain larger numbers.
Half-duplex essentially halves you throughput.

Best regards
					Andrey V.
					Savochkin