honey@down.FUN (code 101) (03/17/85)
Synopsizing kroot's data, and adding a third column: buffer kbytes/sec writes/sec 1k - 2k 50 - 100 25 - 100 10 10 - 20 1k - 2k 1 .06 - .09 60 - 90 The big surprise is not the shabby throughput with one byte writes, but the incredible performance with ten byte writes. This seems suspect. Peter
tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) (03/24/85)
Writing your own protocol depends on the application. I believe you said you wanted extremely small packets. If the size is likely to be four bytes of data or less, then just send duplicates in every packet. If it is going to be more, use a simple checksum from IP. As for hacking the device drivers for the network, that shouldn't be hard for any kernel hacker. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!"