[112361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: switch speed question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Storey)
Wed Feb 25 04:58:43 2009
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:28:20 +1030 (CST)
From: "Tom Storey" <tom@snnap.net>
To: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, "Roy" <r.engehausen@gmail.com>,
"NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Not every bit in results in just one bit out. Broadcast, multicast,
> flooding for unknown MACs (or switching failures), ...
They were talking about a simple scenario where a bit that enters a port
will leave a port. With 24 gigabit ports, for all intents and purposes,
you will only ever have 24 gigabits at the most traversing the backplane.
