Comparative Measurements - FreeBSD

There are 2 noticeable problems - Fast Ethernet is not showing adequate throughput and Myrinet shows loss in throughput at 256 byte packet sizes. The solution for Fast ethernet is to use the Intel Ether Express card. For Myrinet the problem at 256 byte packet sizes is the use of a 4K mbuf cluster size.

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