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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3?
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J. Greco writes...


>No, I have a bad habit of routing on low end equipment...  
>
>But I agree... if a P100 can do 5000pps, what can a PP200 do :-)

Perhaps if Joe would describe this test it would be a good start.

Anyone have a feel for the avg packet size over a typical backbone 
link? A T3 with an avg packet size of 500 bytes is 21000pps full
duplex...I suspect the ave packet size may be smaller with lots
of dialup traffic.....


dennis