Forgive me if I am reminding you of things you already know.

[Frank Smith]

Forgive me if I am reminding you of things you already know.

Do not expect to get anything like the maximum through Ethernet unless you only have two connections.  
Collisions etc. kill bandwidth........  We manage 0.5 M Byte in a "deterministic" way on 
MVME176 - MVME2600 combination but any more seems like suicide.

Frank

>Marcus Sundberg writes:
>> No, Graham was expecting/hoping for 8 M _bytes_, not bits.
>> So in fact it's actual performance is about 1/3 of that, which
>> I pointed out to him.
>
>Marcus is right; we'd like to use all the bandwidth available on the FEC for
>optimal system performance. Can anyone elaborate or provide pointers to more
>information on the FEC throughput issue? Is there really a hardware problem in
>the CPU, or is it a board specific issue?
>
>Thanks,
>Graham



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