[rescue] ATMmmming

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 05:11 PM, dave at cca.org wrote:
>>   Yeah, that'd be great if ATM didn't SUCK.
>
> Why does ATM suck? Tiny packet size?

   53-byte cells.  Router CPUs spending all their time reassembling 
packets.  53 bytes is even significantly smaller than the smallest 
possible TCP packet size in a telnet session (71 if memory serves? too 
tired to add it up right now).

       -Dave

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