Date: 14 May 1999 14:00:59 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? Message-ID: <xzp1zgj5090.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin's message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 04:21:38 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905140349080.6313-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com>
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Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> writes: > I was under the impression that the new machine was on gigabit > ethernet. As you correctly point out it is impossible to do 1TB on 100Mbps > ethernet. In fact you cannot even do the 969GB/day cited in the upgrade > press release. 969*2^30*10/86400 == 120,423,128bps. This agrees with what > the stats pages are reporting today. Why are you counting 10 bits per byte? Ethernet doesn't have start/stop bits. OTOH, I wonder if the Ethernet preamble and trailer have to be subtracted from the 100 Mbps figure... DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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