Subject: ethernet throughput
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Whitaker <jswhit@mac.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/06/2001 06:15:30
Hi all: I've got a Mac IIci running as a firewall/router on my home
network connected to the outside world with a cable modem (using Erik
Winkler's firewall distribution - with netbsd 1.4.2). I'm wondering
about my network throughput - it seems to be maxed out at around 200
KB/sec (2000 megabits). This is the speed I get when I ftp a file from
the @home server to the router, or if I run ttcp. For example, ttcp from
a ppc linux machine on my internal network to the router:
[root@localhost jsw]# ttcp -t 192.168.1.2
ttcp-t: buflen=8192, nbuf=2048, align=16384/+0, port=5001 tcp ->
192.168.1.2
ttcp-t: socket
ttcp-t: connect
ttcp-t: 14966784 bytes in 79.17 real seconds = 184.61 KB/sec +++
ttcp-t: 1828 I/O calls, msec/call = 44.35, calls/sec = 23.09
ttcp-t: 0.0user 0.2sys 1:19real 0% 0i+0d 0maxrss 0+2pf 0+0csw
ifconfig on the two ethernet interfaces (a sonic card and a dayna card,
I believe) gives:
macbsd# ifconfig ae0
ae0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
media: Ethernet manual
inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
macbsd# ifconfig ae1
ae1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
media: Ethernet manual
inet 65.6.103.37 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 65.6.103.255
Is this the throughput I should expect? It seems a bit slow to me.
Thanks in advance.
-Jeff