David J Taylor wrote: > "Rick Jones" <> wrote in message news:hb06gb$dq...@usenet01.boi.hp.com... > [] > >> ftp://ftp.cup.hp.com/dist/networking/briefs/nic_latency_vs_tput.txt >> >> is an old writeup, but it should give the gist of it. > > > Thanks for posting that, Rick, it gave me cause for thought. (In > particular, how Windows Vista / Windows-7 which can throttle the network > adapter, might affect timekeeping).
With switches the problem tends to be the strategy for handling (potentially) colliding traffic. "Passthrough", "store-and-forward", "drop/cause resend" have massively different transit times. Depending on traffic density any single switch will use a mix of all transfertypes. uwe _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions