Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

On 3/24/26 12:42, Erik LaBine wrote:
>>     Has anyone tried to bond interfaces together? I figure with LACP
>> bonding of all four qeX interfaces the thing would be just fine over the
>> NFS with *almost* reseonable performance.
> 
> Admittedly I haven't tried bonding interfaces, but I do suspect you're likely running into SBus limits or possibly even MBus limits there rather than anything about the NIC itself. The quad ethernet should be able to do 100 Mb/s, no? I believe the theoretical max throughout isn't too far off from that.
> 
> Anecdotally, I've never seen better than 760kB/s (~6Mb/s) on an SS5 with a 170MHz TurboSparc. But that was with an SSL connection and the usual HTTP overhead. And on a sketchy gigabit fibre driver I hand rolled.

   I think something is very wrong there.  I've easily saturated 10Mbps 
Ethernet with an SS2, running SunOS 4.

   In fact the first machine I used that had no difficulty saturating a 
10Mbps Ethernet was an SGI 4D-25G, with a MIPS R2000 clocked at 20MHz, a 
far cry from the SS5/170's 170MHz TurboSPARC.

   I could be wrong but I'd point a finger (or perhaps THE finger ;))) 
at SSL.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA