[Sunhelp] routing performance question

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote:

| le1 and le2 are both hooked up to ethernet (each is hooked up to a 10/100
| auto-sensing switch) and watching the traffic across those two with mrtg, i 
| only ever see a max speed of 5Mbps when transfering large files.
| 
| is this a limitation of the sparc5, or is there something else going on?

You're most likely running into a limitation of ethernet itself.

Being that you are running a) 10Mbps and b) half-duplex, at best you'll
typically see 5-7Mbps at best with that config before hitting
saturation. It's just an inherent property with CSMACD.

/dale