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From: sshriva@hubcap.clemson.edu (Sumant Shrivastava)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: LAN traffic
Summary: Measured performance of Ethernet LANS
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.050312.12469@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 05:03:12 GMT
References: <9104232157.AA29513@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Clemson University
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In article <9104232157.AA29513@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, rmcmahon@houvmscc.vnet.ibm.com writes:
> Does anybody out there have any empirical data or know of
> any references containing information on what kind of traffic
> can be expected on a small PC lan?  Ball park figures will
> be fine.
> 
> The LAN configuration that I have in mind is 7 PC's with
> 1 Server which stores all the applications.  Most of the
> applications will run on each PC but the requester RAM
> will be loaded over the network.  1 Laser Printer will be
> connected to the server.  Finally, the applications will be
> word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail ect - nothing to demanding
> on the network.
> 
> Thanks to anyone who may have such a configuration and have some
> empirical numbers.
> 
> Bob McMahon
>  ** If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.

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The following may be of interest to you:

1. Measured Ethernet Performance for Multiple Large File Transfers,
   S. Francis, V. S. Frost, D.L. Soldan, Proceedings - 14th conference on
   local computer networks, IEEE Computer Society, 1989, pp 323-327.

2. Measured Performance of an Ethernet Local Network, J. F. Shoch, 
   J. A. Hupp, The Ethernet Sourcebook, Elsevier Science Publishing,
   1985, pp 31-54. 

The authors of [1] are/were University of Kansas and of [2] with 
XEROX (Palo Alto).


Sumant