From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 25 09:00:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA24605 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:00:51 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA24599 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:00:49 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA26654 for ; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 11:59:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 11:59:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199506251559.LAA26654@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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