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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: IRC Net Bandwidth (was IRC and Security)
Message-ID: <28077:Apr700:18:3191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 00:18:31 GMT
References: <704@seqp4.UUCP> <27773:Apr420:02:0691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <11813@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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In article <11813@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> The new CNSS/ENSS T3 routers are better.  My source has no timings yet
> but `we had no trouble using the T3 backbone to saturate a 10Mb/s
> ethernet from a machine 1000 miles away'---saturate here means get
> approximately 1 MB/s (8 Mb/s) actual data transfer, host-to-host.

That's good to hear.

The big question: Can they still do it with 2-byte packets?

---Dan