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Date:      14 May 1999 14:00:59 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
Cc:        Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time for another upgrade?
Message-ID:  <xzp1zgj5090.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin's message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 04:21:38 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905140349080.6313-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>

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Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> writes:
> 	I was under the impression that the new machine was on gigabit
> ethernet.  As you correctly point out it is impossible to do 1TB on 100Mbps
> ethernet.   In fact you cannot even do the 969GB/day cited in the upgrade
> press release.  969*2^30*10/86400 == 120,423,128bps.  This agrees with what
> the stats pages are reporting today. 

Why are you counting 10 bits per byte? Ethernet doesn't have start/stop bits.

OTOH, I wonder if the Ethernet preamble and trailer have to be
subtracted from the 100 Mbps figure...

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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