Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:59:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net> Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Glover <rob@f-body.org> Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <19980226095941.45367@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34f4b362.667778@mail.cetlink.net>; from John Kelly on Thu, Feb 26, 1998 at 12:25:04AM %2B0000 References: <34F37C2A@smginc.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224192042.29916B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> <19980225122411.62329@freebie.lemis.com> <34f4b8d8.6646364@mail.cetlink.net> <19980226083615.55804@freebie.lemis.com> <34f4b362.667778@mail.cetlink.net>
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On Thu, 26 February 1998 at 0:25:04 +0000, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:36:15 +1030, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >>> It doesn't jive at all with test results Tolly published several years >>> ago in Data Communications. >> >> Did he have an axe to grind? > > Not that I know of. > >>> He said token ring would run at full 16mb wire speed while Ethernet >>> would degrade to 7mb because of collisions. >> >> Right, and none of us have ever seen more than 7 Mb/s out of a 10 Mb >> Ethernet, right? > > You're dodging the collision issue. Not at all. > I've seen 10mb between two stations on my BNC Ethernet when nothing > else is on the wire, but more stations talking will cause throughput > to fall off. Sure. That's the whole point. Without stating the test conditions, the figure of 7 Mb/s is meaningless. >> Any such statement *must* be qualified by the test conditions. > > He probably tested it more thoroughly than either one of us have. Sre. > Why not read his report instead of throwing stones? Did you publish a URL? In any case, I wasn't so much complaining about the report as picking an unqualified value from it. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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