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From: shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet traffic metrics: measuring incremental traffic?
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Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 03:22:04 EST
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>     I need some information on how to measure and compute meaningful metrics
> about ethernet performance and traffic levels, in particular about "the
> amount of traffic generated" by adding diskless Sun 3's to a local ethernet.

What you want to know is the "netstone" rating of each machine!

(Credit to Bill Joy for coining the term "netstone".)

					Bill Shannon