Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

From: Henning Schmiedehausen
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 06:56:39 EST


On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:43, Ricky Beam wrote:

On 5 Sep 2003, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote:
> >225kpps * 64 Bytes (minimum packet len) = 13,7 MBytes / sec
> >
> >100 MBit / 8 bit = 12,5 MBytes / sec
> >
> >So, IMHO even with a small packet saturated 100 MBit link you won't
> >reach 225kpps. AFAIK this was Ciscos intention to publish this number.
> >It basically says "you will have filled your link before you fill our
> >router".
>
> 64B is the minimum ETHERNET frame size. That isn't true for PPP, HDLC,
> Frame relay, ATM, etc.

We were talking 100 MBit Ethernet, weren't we? ;-)

Regards
Henning


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