plipbox 0.6 released

It took quite a while to finish the release (over a year :)) but I think it was worth the wait:

  • A new parallel burst transfer mode was added that really improves the I/O speed on this Amiga port. You will get up to 235 KiB/s across the lines!
  • Added new test modes for performance measurement on Ethernet Port, parallel port and on Amiga side (device loop back, SANA-II API loop back, and TCP/IP stack look back via UDP round trips)
  • Cleaned up firmware and driver code and rewrote firmware to handle full Ethernet frame in SRAM (2 KiB that is for both firmware and 1518 Bytes packet)

Get your copy of plipbox 0.6 on the plibbox homepage!

Here are some performance numbers:

  • Amiga 500 + ACA500:
    • Parallel Transfer: 175.39 rx/201.11 tx KB/s
    • Ethernet Transfer: 314.27 KB/s
    • Bridge (Internal Device Loopback): 102.65 KB/s
    • Bridge (SANA-II API Loopback): 92.88 KB/s
    • Bridge (TCP/IP stack Loopback): 71.81 KB/s
  • Amiga 500 + ACA500 + ACA1230/33
    • Parallel Transfer: 234.36 rx/234.80 tx KB/s
    • Ethernet Transfer: 314.05 KB/s
    • Bridge (Internal Device Loopback): 127.27 KB/s
    • Bridge (SANA-II API Loopback): 123.68 KB/s
    • Bridge (TCP/IP stack Loopback): 114.38 KB/s

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