[rescue] ATMmmming

[Larry Snyder]

...and the switches deal with it in silicon, but I have yet to see
a LANE client that didn't implement the whole damnable thing in s/w.
A former manager here had a sign on his wall:
28: A Terrible Mistake
53: Another Terrible Mistake
:-)
-ls-

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 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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> St. Petersburg, FL                my shiny dome."    -Pete Wargo
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