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TCP Equipped Ethernet Card

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

Josh Baugher writes " A 100 megabit ethernet card with a TCP/IP stack built in. They claim to be able to do 9 megabytes/second with only 2% CPU load (compared to 4.5 megabytes/second at 98% receiving CPU load using Windows NT TCP/IP ( read about this on "geeks" mailing list.) "

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  1. Network benchmark needed by Breace · · Score: 5

    One thing is becoming obvious.

    We need some serious network benchmark tools that are cross-platform usable between Linux and Windows and maybe more.

    Strangely enough not too many seem to exist. Neither does someone seem to have some hard data on network performance. It entirely useless to say 'I get 1MB/s using FTP'.

    A good network benchmark tool will be able to test raw Ethernet performance as well as performance through protocol layers.

    Of course it would only test the network and not use the file system or hard drive. It should be very clear what sort of configuration is supposed to be used: two systems running full-duplex, one system using remote loopback or whatever. It could also be interesting to have a > 2 system test to show what collisions do.

    And most important as far as I'm concerned: Open Source. I don't believe in closed source benchmarks.

    The difference between raw Ethernet and TCP/IP protocol would show us how badly we need hardware assistance on what platform.

    Maybe we should try to port netperf ( www.netperf.org) to Windows and add raw Ethernet to it.

    Well, maybe I'll be a bit more serious about this if there's an interest.

    Breace.