[6453] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Rhett)
Sun Dec 8 06:06:47 1996
To: smd@cesium.clock.org (Sean Doran)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 02:55:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "Joe Rhett" <joe@Navigist.Com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <96Dec7.144755pst.119170-14257+17@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean Doran" at Dec 7, 96 02:47:52 pm
> It is actually quite hard in practice to push a FDDI switch
> into trouble, although theoretically it should be simple, modulo
> the interesting effects that token-withholding can produce.
Hm. Not sure what you mean. FDDI can certainly be over-utilized, that's
not hard. On the other hard, FDDI doesn't fall down and die like
Ethernet does when congested.
> In practice, the limiting factor will tend to be the per-port
> bandwidth rather than the aggregate bandwidth. One would have
Bingo.
