On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 12:18 -0700, askthelist@gmail.com wrote:
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> Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB
> internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is
> this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this
> limit? I'm a little worried about this because we are fast approaching this
> mark and am afraid were gonna hit it before we max out are available
> bandwidth? Anyone ever run into this situation or am I just paranoid?

This[1] caculation is for 10Mb ethernet, but multiply that by 10 and you
get 148800 packets per second.

[1] http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gorry/course/lan-pages/enet-calc.html

Jeff

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