[plug] ethernet cards and their settings/throughput

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Chris Griffin
> Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 11:36 PM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [plug] ethernet cards and their settings/throughput
> 
> OK, I know this has been talked about before but, I have two 
> systems connected together with a 1Gb cat 6 crossover cable, 
> I have tried all sorts of settings (ethtool) and the best I 
> can get is about 24 Mb. I am running RedHat (oops, better 
> make that Fedora 3). One end is an Athlon 1.2GHz the other an 
> Athlon XP 3200+.
> I figure I should get a lot better than this. Any hints?
> BTW, I find that ethtool does not work that well, I seem to 
> have to issue successive commands (followed by ethtool eth0 
> to see what it actuall set it to) in order to get to the 
> setting I wanted, almost as though each try skips to the next 
> setting combination and rolls around to the start again.
> 
> Chris G

Importantly, which ethernet cards are they? 
My Intel 1000MT pumps a max of 32MB/s and the NetGear GA302T gets 28MB/s.
You do realise that 800-900Mb/s can only be achieved by PCI-X, PCI-Express,
or offloading PCI-66MHz gigabit cards.

Besides, I know my hard disk can only just keep up with 32MB/s :)

CraigF.