Fastest local/net connection?

Blorton · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Looking for pointers on the fastest/best way to communicate to/from an xp desktop to a gentoo server. The machines are close to one another, so I was thinking of just doing a pair of dedicated gbit nics with a crossover cable. Is there a particular protocol that would be best for this? NFS, Samba? Both machines are fairly speedy, cpu-wise.

I'd appreciate any input.

Dan

rkdempsey · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

I got my best throughput in a similar setup using crossover cable and ftp . I setup a ftp sever on the gentoo box ( cant remember which, windows box died and removed it) then just ftp'd into the server. Was simpler and faster than samba, and I dont't think you can use NFS with windows.

gnuageux · Veteran Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 1201

Direct connect + SCP would work as well.
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Nossie · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 181

You don't need a crossover cable with gbit ethernet...
The speed you will get is (mostly) limited to the read/write capabilities of you harddisks.

Blorton · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm doing scp now over switched 100Mbit, and it seems to work well enough considering the link speed. I was just thinking that with the upgraded link speed, it would be a good time to go with something more efficient.

Since this is a direct connect, it sure would be nice to have a way to not even need to use the ip stack across the wire.

The server has a 3ware with a pair of midrange drives on it in a raid1 arrangement, which should help a lot for this since I will mostly be reading from the server. The desktop only has a pokey raptor in it. Both have 2GHz or better AMD's so I should get some workable performance out of the faster link. :twisted:

I'll see if ftp works faster enough in this setup to warrant using over scp.

Thanks again for the pointers.
Dan