On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bakul Shah wrote: > For 100Mbps ports, the max packet rate in one direction is 10^8/672 == > 148809 pps (packets per sec) per port. So for 24 port full duplex ports > you get an aggregate maximum throughput of 148809*24*2 = 7738068 = > 7.14Mpps (Million pps). For a 48 port switch it is 14.29Mpps.
so, the closer the Mpps gets to that 7.1Mpps, the better the switch overall? I take it that has to do with the CPU driving the switch itself, or is there other factors that help drive that # up? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"