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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:11441 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:13667 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:4387 Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!parc!fenner From: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Date: 4 Aug 1995 20:55:41 GMT Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 13 Distribution: best Message-ID: <3vu1gd$7gg@news.parc.xerox.com> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3urba1$cgl@blob.best.net> <3us870$15o@agate.berkeley.edu> <B.A.MCCAULEY.95Aug3145624@wcl-l.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: crevenia.parc.xerox.com In article <B.A.MCCAULEY.95Aug3145624@wcl-l.bham.ac.uk>, <B.A.McCauley@bham.ac.uk> wrote: >Actually I think Ethernet = 2 T1s is a better approximation. I seem to >recall that with a random traffic profile CSMA/CD (ethernet) actually >saturates with an average traffic at 1/e (about 37%) of the burst >transfer rate. Beyond that, the collision retry queues just keep on >growing. This is a widely spread myth. See, for example, the WRL tech report 88.4, "Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality", by Boggs, Mogul and Kent. <http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/88.4.html> Bill