Hi,

These numbers don't look correct at all.  Overhead of a bridge should be
virtually nothing on latency, and zero on bandwidth.  Are you sure you don't
have autonegotiation messing up somewhere?


cheers,
Lennert



On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0500, Cannon, Mike R. wrote:

> bridge overhead information and question:
> 
> I am still running my original bridge configuration with the experimentally
> patch on the 2.4.10 kernel.  I have done some initial performance testing.
> I did 4 test with two different servers to the same workstation:
> 
> no bridge
> UNIX ftp
>         38164563 bytes sent in 6.3 seconds (5.9e+03 Kbytes/s) same 36.3 MB
> file below for NT SSL transfer
>         38164563 bytes sent in 6.2 seconds (6e+03 Kbytes/s) same 36.3 MB
> file below for NT SSL transfer
>         672202181 bytes sent in 1.2e+02 seconds (5.6e+03 Kbytes/s)
>         672202181 bytes sent in 1.3e+02 seconds (5.2e+03 Kbytes/s)
> NT SSL file transfer
>         36.3 MB in 15 sec 2.42 MB/sec
>         36.3 MB in 15 sec 2.42 MB/sec
>         36.3 MB in 15 sec 2.42 MB/sec
> 
> 
> 
> bridge with 3Com switch
> UNIX ftp
>         38164563 bytes sent in 10 seconds (3.7e+03 Kbytes/s) same 36.3 MB
> file below for NT SSL transfer
>         38164563 bytes sent in 9.9 seconds (3.8e+03 Kbytes/s) same 36.3 MB
> file below for NT SSL transfer
>         672202181 bytes sent in 1.8e+02 seconds (3.6e+03 Kbytes/s)
>         672202181 bytes sent in 1.8e+02 seconds (3.6e+03 Kbytes/s)
> NT SSL file transfer
>         36.3 MB in 21 sec 1.73 MB/sec
>         36.3 MB in 22 sec 1.65 MB/sec
>         36.3 MB in 17 sec 2.14 MB/sec
> 
> 
> for ftp on the 36.2 MB file we add 4 sec when using the bridge
> for ssl on the 36.2 MB file we add 2 to 7 sec when using the bridge
> 
> Do these figures look accurate for the over head that is added to packets
> moving through the bridge?  I realize that there are lots of variables like
> machine speed and NIC drivers/settings, but just initially might these look
> correct?
> 
> 
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