[Info-vax] Networking Benchmarks

[Ian Miller]

On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 5:35:57 PM UTC+1, 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.
> 
> bill

The implementation of DECnet works better than the DEC/CPQ/HP/HPE implementation of TCP/IP. If you compared TCPWARE or MULTINET with DECnet this may be a different result. Of course it depends on use e.g. lots of small messages is a different load than large data transfers