[Info-vax] Networking Benchmarks

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2019 12:35 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Has anyone ever done any benchmarking of TCPIP vs. DECNET under
> VMS?  It seems that there should be less overhead and therefore
> greater throughput using DECNET.
> 
> Why am I asking this?  I have been thinking about some
> of the uses of networking in systems where there are
> backend/middleware/frontend architectures and the idea
> that DECNET actually has a valuable place in this kind
> of architecture struck me.  Now I am looking for data
> to back the idea up.  if I am right in my thinking, could
> be a real good reason to revive projects to run DECNET
> on non-VMS systems as well.

I don't know much about DECnet at the wire level.

Assuming that it is pretty efficient, then it sounds likely
that it is more efficient than TCP. But I find it hard to believe
that it more efficient than UDP.

It is an interesting idea though.

I suspect that the biggest problem will be tools and
libraries.

Arne