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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Netgraph could be a router also.
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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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