tinc - Aug 2005 - Painfully slow under windows

I did some testing on the speed. found tinc under windows is paintfully slow,
particularly, it is paintfully slow to transfer anything from the windows
machine. here is my setting. I have two windows xp in local network 100MB. use
ftp to test speed. without tinc, the speed is about 5MB/sec. but through the vpn
interface, speed is about only 10-20KB/sec.

the next test, I installed VMWare 5.0 on both windows, and installed SUSE linux
9.3 within VMware.  from the linux, downloading from another windows (non-vpn
interface) is about 3MB/sec, from another linux (within the vmware in another
windows xp) the speed is about 1.3MB/sec.  BUT downloading from another
windows's vpn interface is very slow about 10-20KB/sec.
therefore, the problem much be the tinc windows daemon or driver. 

the same happens to both machines, and the speed results are very consistant. So
my question is : Is the windows daemon or driver so much slower? or I did
something wrong?



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On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:30:46PM -0700, Hansong Huang wrote:
> I did some testing on the speed. found tinc under windows is
> paintfully slow, particularly, it is paintfully slow to transfer
> anything from the windows machine. 
[...]
> the same happens to both machines, and the speed results are very
> consistant. So my question is : Is the windows daemon or driver so
> much slower? or I did something wrong?
More people have reported that tinc feels slow under Windows. It seems
to help if you increase the priority of the tincd.exe process. I guess
it is the interaction between the daemon and the driver that is slower
under Windows, but I don't know the real cause.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org>
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