Re: IPERF for switch hardware testing?


Steve,

> 1.  With a 64bit / 66 mhz PCI bus we seemed to be limited to a throughput
> of about 750Mhz bandwidth without excessive loss.

What packet size are you using?  I have been able to obtain over 900 Mb/s 
on such hosts back-to-back using a Syskonnect card and 4k or 9k packets (I 
don't recall which off the top of my head).

Michael

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