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From: wross@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (William Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Sun's FDDI
Message-ID: <9536@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 90 18:05:31 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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    Suppose I have 2 Sun 4/330 machines on their
    own Ethernet.  I open a socket between the
    machines and shove about 1MB of data over it.  
    This takes N seconds.

    Suppose I now equip the machines with FDDI
    interfaces.  How long will it take to move
    that same data?  N/10? seconds?  N/5 seconds?
    Anyone have any clue?  Anyone with a pair
    of FDDI boards want to try this for me?

    Besides FDDI, what are my other options for 
    moving that 1MB as fast as possible?

    Thanks
    Bill Ross
    wross@cs.cmu.edu