Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!BRL.ARPA!reschly
From: reschly@BRL.ARPA ("Robert J. Reschly Jr.")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: "... and statistics" (Re: [Phil Dykstra: more interesting numbers] )
Message-ID: <8804152155.aa29614@SEM.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 16 Apr 88 01:55:53 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 13


Mike writes:
>  ... Many would prefer to claim this as a peak rate of 400 packets/sec
> (2 interface traversals per "packet", counting the ping responses as a
> second packet) -- we would say "400 monodes/sec" in this case.

   Actually that should be "monograms" not "monodes".  The term
"monogram" is derived from the simile between "diodes" and "datagrams",
and their one-legged cousins.  (Ask Ron Natalie about "monodes" if
you're interested).

				Later,
				    Bob