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- From: ric@updike.sri.com (Richard Steinberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: tcp vs. udp transfer rates in a LAN
- Message-ID: <40659@unix.SRI.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:25:42 GMT
- Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM
- Organization: sri
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- Originator: ric@updike
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- I have two Suns separated by two repeaters (but no bridges or routers).
- When I do an FTP transfer I get xfer rates of 90 - 170 Kbs with an average
- of about 120 Kbs. When I do rcp I get rates closer to 1/10 of that:
- 14 - 21 Kbs (with one unusual xfer at 127 Kbs). nfs transfer rates
- (to/from disk from/to imported disk) are similar to rcp rates.
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- When I do similar transfers between 2 SUNs on the same section
- of ethernet (no repeaters between them), I get ftp rates of 330 Kbs - 830 Kbs.
- rcp rates are 170 Kbs - 360 Kbs.
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- I have been told that the repeaters can occassionally go into
- something called "partition" mode, where, if they see "too many"
- collisions, the temporarily stop repeating. I don't know if this is
- actually happening.
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- Can anyone help with this? What should we look at next? [We have
- LAN analyzers and SW tools like tcpdump]. Is there any way to "tune" UDP
- tranfers? Is it likely that one or both repeaters can't handle the udp
- traffic, but is better able to handle tcp traffic?
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- Thanks in advance for any replies/suggestions.
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- ric steinberger
- ric@updike.sri.com
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