From 60958edfecced9c6b84035fc3415098e732b11c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 21:20:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove outdated first person performance testimonial (Pentium
90).
PR: docs/51658, docs/50665
---
.../handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml | 18 +++++-------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
index 57148534c3..6289bca22c 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
@@ -1068,19 +1068,7 @@ wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
<para>as well.</para>
</sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Performance</title>
-
- <para>My bridge/firewall is a Pentium 90 with one 3Com 3C900B
- and one 3C905B. The protected side of the network runs at
- 10 mbps half duplex and the connection between the bridge
- and my router (a Cisco 675) runs at 100 mbps full duplex.
- With no filtering enabled, I have found that the bridge adds
- about 0.4 milliseconds of latency to pings from the
- protected 10 mbps network to the Cisco 675.</para>
- </sect2>
-
+
<sect2>
<title>Other Information</title>
@@ -1092,6 +1080,10 @@ wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
<para>If you have multiple bridges on your network, there cannot be more
than one path between any two workstations. Technically, this means
that there is no support for spanning tree link management.</para>
+
+ <para>A bridge can add latency to your ping times, especially for
+ traffic from one segment to another.
+
</sect2>
</sect1>