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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Fabrice wrote:
> Hello Julian,
>
> Thanks for your answers. I still need a bit of explanations on the
> Fast Ethernet network :)
>
>
> > > I tought that FastEthernet was limited to about 8000 packets per seconds.
> > > How is it possible,
> >
> > 8000*1500bytes
> >
> > Now check with 60-byte SYN packets. Then with X-byte UDP packets
> >where X is your average packet size
>
> For example, you mean that you can put 25 "60 bytes SYN packets"
> into one Ethernet frame? So you have about 8000*25 = 200'000 SYN
No. You have more frames. There's no frame rate on ethernet. Only bitrate (10,
100 or 1000 Mbps). Ethernet is not a synchronous protocol.
> packets/s? Are you sure? :)
> Each Ethernet frame has already the source and destination MAC
> address, and I don't think you can put multiple layer 3 packets in one
> layer 2 packet.
Forget that. It's stupid. Ethernet frames do _not_ have fixed length.
Radu-Adrian Feurdean
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