Subj : Novell Linux Desktop 9
To   : Belly
From : MBR
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 08:17 am

  Re: Novell Linux Desktop 9
  By: Belly to PistolGrip on Tue Feb 15 2005 10:39 pm

 > This reminds me... (off on a tangent I go!)

 > I ran a network benchmark at the office just for giggles a few days ago. The
 > results were interesting:

 > SMB writes to three different PCs, 100mbps Ethernet PC 1: Windows
 > 2000 Pro    - Athlon 1GHz     - 873KB/sec PC 2: Red Hat 8.0 (SAMBA)
 > - Athlon 750MHz   - 8.9MB.sec PC 3: NetWare 6 (CIFS) - AthlonXP
 > 2800+  - 7.4MB/sec

 > That's no typo. The Win2k box really got less than a meg/second.

i would think the win2k pro box needs some tcpip optimization. or the tcpip 
stack is messed up

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