[Ilugc] measuring ethernet throughput

[K.Sambaiah]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, durai wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:05:39 +0530
> From: durai <durai at isofttech.com>
> To: ILUGC <ilugc at ae.iitm.ac.in>
> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] measuring ethernet throughput
> 
> Sorry, its 100 MBPS, I am using a hub.
> Will it affect the throughput?
> What if I use a cross cable?
> 

   Hub simply sends traffic to all hosts. It obviously will
   have performance issues.
  
   It is 100Mbps not 100MBps. A lot of other things also
   will come into picture like hard disk speeds etc.

   Also try with
   mii-tool
   and see what output you are getting.

  

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thanks and regards,
Sambaiah K