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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:46:06 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, dolemite@wuli.nu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [hackers] Re: Netgraph could be a router also.
Message-ID:  <3DD3005E.ABA5D49B@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021109180321.GA559@unknown.nycap.rr.com> <3DCD8761.5763AAB2@mindspring.com> <15823.51640.68022.555852@canoe.velocet.net>  <3DD1865E.B9C72DF5@mindspring.com> <1037229061.44665.3.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se>

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Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> > The problem is that they don't tell me about where you are measuring
> > your packets-per-second rate, or how it's being measured, or whether
> > the interrupt or processing load is high enough to trigger livelock,
> > or not, or the size of the packet.  And is that a unidirectional or
> > bidirectional rate?  UDP?
> >
> > I guess I could guess with 200kpps:
> >
> >       100mbit/s  /  200kp/s  =  500 bytes per packet
> 
> 100 mega_bit_, not byte. 200kpps is 500 bits per packet, 62.5 bytes per
> packet.

Thanks for the correction, though it's 50, not 62.5, I think,
because we are talking IP packets, not raw frames.

-- Terry

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