[SunRescue] Sun 3/50 and SLC

[Martin Frost]

Sam Creasey wrote:

> > Sun 3 ethernet is very poor at best. Packet loss probably is not good
> > even by sun3 standards, but otherwise, expet 300kB/sec at maximum.

> FTP'ing a file to my linux-running sun3 shows:
> 8640054 bytes received in 14.2 secs (6e+02 Kbytes/sec)

I seem to remember a discussion on the Linux/sun3 mailing list that
there may be a bad capacitor somewhere in the onboard 10base-2
transceiver, which can dry out after a long period, causing spurious
packet loss. Suggested fix was to use an external transceiver.

On Linux/sun3, however, the ethernet driver *far* outperforms the
SCSI driver. I believe it's still true that NFS is faster than local
disks. ;)

--m