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Subject: Re: a2065 information & networking to PC problems
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:30:15 GMT
Organization: Monash University
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>Going from a Pentium 120 running Linux to an A300 running AmiTCP-2.7 I get
>about 80K per sec. Running NetBSD on the A3000 gives me about 300k per sec
>or higher.

>To compare, a 486DX33 running Cameleon TCP/IP under Windows going to a HP
>workstation gets about 60K per sec.

On the Amiga I'm running AmigaDOS and on the PC I'm running Windows
for Worjgroups (3.11).
Does that explain it? Pity it's so slow.
It think that it has something to do with the MTU and MSS settings, as
adjusting these change the transfer rate.

My understanding is:
The MTU is the size of the packet and the MSS is the number of bytes
of data within the packet. The MSS should be at least 40bytes smaller
then the MTU as the header is usually 40 bytes long...
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