[SunRescue] Sparc 10 cover plates

[Michael C. Vergallen]

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, paul pries wrote:

> 
> 
> > sadamson at kenan.com wrote:
> > 
> > } On the other hand, if you load more than 5
> > Mbit/s
> > } on an ethernet
> > } you will definately find it saturated,
> > 
> > No you won't. Taking TCP as an example, a data packet
> > containing 8K of data could get ack'ed by a 20 byte
> > packet. Looking at it this way saturation
> > appears nearer 9Mbit/s.
> 
> True. If you have only two units on the physical
> network.
> 
> The more workstations you put on the network, the
> lower
> the saturation point gets. Under normal
> conditions, in a
> normal office LAN, the saturation point is
> somwhere between
> 5 and 6 Mbit/s.
> When you pass 4 to 5 Mbit/s you'll notice an
> inrease in collisions,
> which causes retransmissions. Guess what happens
> then... *grin*

I don't think so...we have a small network 16 systems here on Two SMC Hubs
and we get local trafic at 8.8 - 9.1 Mbit/sec on ordenary 10Mb/s network.

Michael