Re: Performance Tests Cisco 2514 and Pentium 166/400

[Dennis]

At 10:07 PM 2/28/00 +0000, you wrote:

>> Real overloads take care of themselves in the form of ring overruns...you
>> can tune the size of the rings in most cases as well....causing overloads
>> by not processing the data properly is not a "win"
>
>Demonstrably not the case. You can stall a PC with a hardware packet
>generator just on IRQ load at 100Mbit, let alone Gbit

A machine's capacity is what it can process WITHOUT dropping packets. If
you have to drop them to stop it from stalling then you need a faster
machine. Momentary overruns can are handled gracefully, continuous overruns
require better hardware.

DB

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