Hi,
There've been a lot of postings regarding the performance issues of STN.
I run two STN boxes, one is a firewall for an internet cafe the other a
test setup for an intranet. The first one runs on a PII 266 pc100 with
64Mb (A), the other one a Compaq Celeron 350a with 32Mb (B).
I've done a lot of load testing on B and it performs fine, 8.4Mb/sec
throughput on a switched 10Mb LAN but it degrades on a collision domain
(hub) to around 6.2Mb/sec sustained. I'll have some figures on 100Mb
switched as soon as they fix the hub....
Computer A basically performs the same except when there's a lot of
gaming going, network speeds drop to a crawl. I haven't found out if
this is related to STN or any other unit in the network, maybe somebody
else knows more about that.
What does seem odd is that NIC's on both sides of STN seem to generate a
lot more collisions then any other NIC's on the network, about 12% on
average to be precise.
I tested 4 different network cards and the all showed about the same
results, any thoughts on this?
P.S.: I just have to thank john for listening to everybody who had an
idea about what STN should be like and actually implementing most of it.
It's becoming a great product thanks to his patience and I hope he takes
a vacation after the release of 2.1, cheers!
Your sincerely,
Ilan Steemers
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