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From: sacg1198@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Cattanach)
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Subject: Re: FDDI availability
Keywords: FDDI
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Date: 12 Mar 91 20:09:43 GMT
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tom@rsp.UUCP (Thomas Ruf) writes:

>vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:

>>What number for what sort of traffic corresponds to "OK"?  What does ttcp
>>say?  Or another TCP/IP benchmark?  Or even FTP?  (which usually hits
>>bottlenecks other than network stuff)

>Don't know about NPI's board, but on our FDDI board ttcp (well, our clone
>that runs under Messy-DOS and uses our API) performs at >1.5MBytes TCP
>and 2MB UDP.

We got ~30 Mbit/sec over FDDI between two Crays using "nettest" from
Cray.  

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 -catt (Scott Cattanach - catt@uiuc.edu)

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace,
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