Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!martino From: martino@logitek.co.uk (Martin O'Nions) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: PC/TCP speed Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 13:43:31 GMT References: <302@srchtec.UUCP> Organization: Logitek Plc. Lines: 35 mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) writes: >Does anyone know if PC-NFS (Sun Microsystems) runs faster than PC/TCP >(FTP Software, Inc.)? We are testing out a copy of PC/TCP and it runs/access >files from our Ultrix system slower than our current 3COM server. I thought >NFS would be at least as fast as anything written by a company that does >DOS software. Technology bigots unite! I like IP and NFS too, but I wouldn't make the mistake of thinking that it puts less overhead on the system. By the time you cut down the protocol stack, dedicate the server to LAN operations, and run an over ambitious bootstrap (DOS) on the client instead of an operating system, it's amazing how LAN performance can be tweaked! Even 3Com's old dos-based 3+ Share, with the overhead of XNS managed to deliver reasonable performance, whilst the all-singing, all-dancing (we distribute it, we're bound to make this comment) 3+ Open is PDQ in most circumstances. I wouldn't want to use OS/2 on my workstation, but I have no objections to seeing it on a file server. Just to clarify the issue, I divide my (network) time between IP, IPX, XNS, and occasionallly NETBEUI/DLC and NBP as well, so I'm honestly not protocol biased...... P.S. Has anybody out there got KA9Q to broadcast RIP packets properly when routing? -- +------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | I've got a little black book with my poems in, | Martin O'Nions | | I've got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in,| Logitek Group Support | | When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a | martino@logitek.co.uk | | bone in (Roger Waters - The Wall) | 0257 426 644 | +------------------------------------------------+-----------------------+