[SunHELP] Gigabit Ethernet..

It is highly dependent on the particular server models, what operating
system they run and how good your switch is. If you skip the switch and run
gigabit adapter to gigabit adapter you can improve things a little.

Most Unices can run at 600+Mbs given the right hardware and a reasonable
cpu/bus load. Your transfer protocols will have an effect also. A tcp based
protocol has more overhead with ACKs. I haven't personally seen much above
300Mbs on Windows unless it had nothing else to do, and then I've seen it
run 400Mbs.

One thing you can play with is setting up for jumbo frames. This is a big
improvement but everything on the link should play at the same MTU.

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Suhas Kamble [mailto:suhas.kamble at bms.com]
~ Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:29 PM
~ To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [SunHELP] Gigabit Ethernet..
~ 
~ 
~ Hi,
~ 
~ Has anyone done any benchmarking on transfer of data over 
~ Gigabit Ethernet?
~ or some practical data?
~ I want to know what's the transfer rate it can achieve as I 
~ need to move
~ about 400GB from one server to other over network.
~ 
~ 	-Suhas
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