Re: [Linux-decnet-user] naive LAT question regarding speed

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

Zube wrote:
> Thanks much for all the time and effort that went into the DECnet software.
> It is much appreciated.
>   
> The LAT software has recently come in handy when our old DECstation finally
> gave up.  A quick install of Debian on an older IBM Thinkpad, apt-get and
> latcp -s and we had connectivity.  I was most impressed and very grateful.
> 
> Alas, the speed is several times slower than what we were seeing before.
> There's nothing fancy going on, just a few dumb terminals hooked up to
> a DECserver 200.  I've tried different network cards and 10baseT v. 
> 100baseT, but the slowness remains.  The Thinkpad is plenty fast (an 850mhz)
> and is performing no other task.
> 
> Before I dive into it further, might anyone have any suggestions on what
> I might be missing. 
> 

Could you tell me more about what you are doing? I know that "reverse" 
LAT is slower by about a factor of 1.8 or so but I've never heard of 
those sort of orders of magnitude. Normal terminal access, in my 
experience, is limited by the speed of the serial line between the 
terminal and the server.

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patrick