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- From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Advice on calculating timing gaps between packets.
- In-Reply-To: hcb@world.std.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:41:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <STEINAR.HAUG.92Nov20100042@delab.sintef.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
- References: <BARNETT.92Nov9112747@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <Bxw4sp.n22@world.std.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 10:00:42
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- hcb@world.std.com (Howard C Berkowitz) writes:
- >A few random things to consider. You will never get the true 10 MBPS from
- >an IEEE 802.3/ETHERNET LAN, due to some timing requirements of the protocol
- >itself. There must be a minimum 9.6 microsecond delay between packets; this
- >is part of the medium access control process. There must be enough idle
- >time that the most distant station will hear a jam signal.
- >
- >Assuming a single transmitter and a single receiver, the maximum possible
- >frame-level transfer rate will be based on the length (or length distribution)
- >of frames, plus the interframe delay.
-
- You may not get 100%, no. But modern workstations can get very close (say
- better than 95%).
-
- >I often find it worthwhile to write a reasonably quick-and-dirty Monte Carlo
- >simulation of the line protocols rather than go too far in analyzing them.
-
- How about actually *measuring* instead? With tools like ttcp and a quiet
- (two station) Ethernet, I can get better than 1 MByte/s (yes, 1048576 B/s)
- between two Sparc IPCs. And you certainly can't claim they are top of the
- line these days...
-
- People seem fond of propagating the idea that you will never be able to fully
- load an Ethernet. Well, you can! And despite theoretical predictions to the
- contrary, Ethernet handles a high load very well, degrades gracefully and is
- in general extremely reliable.
-
- Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
- SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
- Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no,
- sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no
-