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From: wasc@cgch.uucp (Armin Schweizer)
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Subject: Re: Sun's FDDI
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Date: 8 Jun 90 05:56:50 GMT
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In the system configuration you drawed up, it is likely, that the
transfer of 1 MByte takes the same time on ethernet as it does on
FDDI. The bottleneck in transferring files between just two machines
is NOT the ethernet, but the file transfer software. All
the en/decapsulation and buffer management work limits the
bandwidth below the one given by ethernet, even on an unloaded
machine.

regards
arminius



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