> > I guess it would really be a great help if someone did tests like Cons'
> > "overall performance" ones for network performance explicitly. Like e.g.
> > performance for various packet-sizes of all available protocol types,
> > possibly including NAT connections. We have no comparable figures at hand
> > right now, I guess.
>
> Why not ?
> I've often been doing this to check the reliability of the network layer of
> kernels that I distribute. I often use Tux for this, because it can easily
> sustain 10k hits/s during months.
This is unfortunately not sufficient, not even close to. If you really want to
have a good idea what is going on you should as well check out what is happening
with packet sizes a lot smaller than 1500 (normal mtu). Check data rate an
packet loss with packet sizes around 80 bytes or so to get an idea what bothers
us :-)
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