Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Ethernet bridge recommendations?
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.164241.19984@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2926@sharkey.cc.umich.edu> <3769@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 16:42:41 GMT

In article <3769@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>	if the bridges can maintain 6k frames/sec steady state, then
>	they should be plenty fast.  unfortunately, many bridge companies
>	are playing bullshit specsmanship games.  example:  quoting
>	"burst" performance numbers...

Another sharp bit of specsmanship which is (I'm told) not uncommon is to
quote "I/Oput" numbers as "throughput", i.e. "6000/s" might really be
3000/s in plus 3000/s out.
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