eliot@aix02.aix.rpi.edu (Brian Eliot) (12/25/90)
A report first made available in April detailing the TCP/IP performance of AIX/370 and TCP/IP for VM has been revised to include data for the IBM 3172 Model 1 Interconnect Controller and the Bus-Tech Ethernet LAN Controller Model 2 (ELC2) FASTCETI emulation. The revised report may be obtained via anonymous FTP to aix.rpi.edu (128.113.26.50) in the following files: pub/bti.README instructions for configuring and installing a Bus-Tech ELC or ELC2 interface under VM and AIX/370 pub/aixtcpbench.ps performance benchmark report in PostScript format pub/aixtcpbench.1403 performance benchmark report in line printer format (ASA carriage control) The 3172-1 benchmarks were performed at all three supported channel data rates and achieved FTP throughputs in the range of 575-650 kilobytes per second. The ELC2 FASTCETI throughputs ranged from 885-950 kilobytes per second. These results were achieved using AIX/370. TCP/IP for VM (5798-FAL) results for the 3172 were in the range of 250-310 kilobytes per second. Our thanks to RPI's Engineering Computing Services department for making the 3172 available for the benchmarks. Brian Eliot Information Technology Services Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute