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From: drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr)
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Subject: Re: 3C505 Packet Driver-slow
Keywords: 3C505, packet driver, Novell
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Date: 11 Feb 91 20:01:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.023016.29643@aero.org> ctw@aerospace.aero.org (Charles T. Wolverton) writes:
>We have tried the 3C505 PD using the Novell -n flag on a couple of
>machines and find the Novell functionality too slow to be useful. Like
>minutes to log onto a fileserver.
>
>Is this ... a well known problem? ... an error in something we're
>doing? ... correctable??
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>-chas
>
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Charles,

Could you please post a summary of the responses you receive to this
query, or send me a copy of them?  I've noticed that the 3c505 packet
driver is pretty slow also, when doing FTP transfers over a TCP/IP
with the NCSA Telnet package: it can send or receive at about 3 Kb./sec., 
which is about one fifth what I've seen this very same PC hardware do when 
using Sun's PC-NFS filesystem and driver software.

Thanks,

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