Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 19:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: Adam Turoff <AdamT@smginc.com>, hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Glover <rob@f-body.org> Subject: RE: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980227185823.29412d-100000@cynic.portal.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224192042.29916B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Chris Dillon wrote:
> CSMA/CD just isn't very
> efficient on a heavily loaded network. The CSMA/CD network (Ethernet)
> would spend more time dealing with collisions than it would passing usable
> data.
*Sigh*. It's now been nearly ten years since this myth was killed,
and yet people are still repeating it. If you want to see a real
live Ethernet 3000 feet long with 24 hosts on it operating at
greater than 90% capacity, with an offered load that *continuously*
exceeds the theoretical capacity of the network, have a look at
ftp://ftp.cynic.net/pub/cjs/ethnetcap.ps.gz
cjs
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