Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!hedrick
From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: maximum Ethernet throughput
Message-ID: <1171@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 04:02:31 GMT
References: <8803012359.AA00957@acetes.dec.com>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 14

I've heard a second-hand report that Van Jacobson recently claimed an
8.2Mbit/sec TCP transfer between two Sun 3/50's using a very
aggressively tuned 4.3 BSD TCP.  If I got that right, it's quite
impressive, considering that a 3/50 is by current standards not that
fast a machine.  This suggests

 - that 10 > 4  (i.e. that you can get an Ethernet transfer that
	is faster than the maximum transfer on a 4Mbit token ring)

 - that you don't necessarily have to abandon robust, long-haul
	protocols such as TCP in order to get good performance

I wonder if we could nominate Van for a Nobel prize?  It seems to me
that he deserves something for all the work he has been doing for
TCP/IP.