Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 11:59:38 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506251559.LAA26654@mail.htp.com>
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>Rodney grimes writes... >> Of course, 5mbs is the upper limit with full frame forwarding on 10mbs >> media, its 50mbs (1/2 of the bandwidth) with 100mbs media. You ought to know >> that. > >That is not true. 10mbs is the upper limit with full frame forwarding, >and I can show you some equipment that does it. We are not going back >out the same wire, so there is no wire contention or for that matter >even controller contention. > >Here is the funny shaped conical hat, please go think about what you >said for a while <:-). > I love this "I can demonstrate" stuff. Try the hat on yourself. To get from a to b to c requires 2 transmission times at 10mbs (because you have to wait for the full frame to arrive, which was what we were talking about) , which means that net throughput cannot be greater than 50% of 10mbs. db
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