Re: Gigabit advice please


Subject: Re: Gigabit advice please
From: bryan stalcup (bryan@stalcup.net)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 14:27:43 EDT


Walt wrote:

> i have a dual 550 PIII/1Gig Ram/320G U160 RAID5/Gigabit Ethernet (3com)
> server running netatalk on redhat linux 6.1. works great. 10+ M/bytes per
> second transfers to G4 workstations over a switched Gigabit/100 Megabit
> network.
>
> Hrrm... Now you have me curious! I'm running
> RH 6.0 with a 2.2.16-3 kernel on a PII 300
> over a100 mbit switch and am getting 8-9 MB/sec
> transfers. Is just over 1-2 MB/sec all I can expect to
> gain by going to gigabit?

the clients are all running at 100BT, so roughly ten could (theoretically) get
simultaneous full speed access to the server. i'm using the netgear standalone
switch with 2 Gigabit ports and 16(?) 100Mbit ports.

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