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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!rsp!tom
- From: tom@rsp.UUCP (Thomas Ruf)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Is Netware NFS overpriced? (was Re: HELP: tftp Novell server)
- Message-ID: <1067@rsp.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 11:02:27 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: RSP Datensysteme, W-Germany
- Lines: 17
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- keith@novell.COM (Keith Brown) writes:
- >NetWare NFS on
- >a typical 386/33 squirts 8K datagrams out onto an Ethernet wire in
- >5 1518 byte packets and a sixth 938 byte packet (making up the difference)
- >with a tail to tail IPG of around 1.3 milliseconds. ......
- >....... is too small a time period for your SCO client to catch
- >its packet receiving breath in.
-
- While I certainly agree that the SCO client is not the fastest on earth,
- nevertheless the *ETHERNET CARD* should be able to cope with this.
- Any ethernet card that can not receive at least six back-to-back packets
- without CPU intervention is junk.
-
- Thomas
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