[vortex] (no subject)

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Wu Yadong wrote:

> I write a program in linux kernel to test net work device such as firewall ,vpn. This program must generate great net traffic, my net card is 3com 3c905. But when I test a 10M bps hub, too much traffic will cause net card to crash.

With a 10 Mbps hub, you can easily get collisions when several computers 
send packets at the same time, so this is not a good testing environment. 
You should probably get a switch or connect the source of packets and the 
target directly with a crossover cable.

I think that this is not really a vortex specific question, so you might 
find better results asking on linux-net mailing list.

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