On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:40:30PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > 1 billion bits per second is 1*10^9 bits, contrast with 2^30 bits which bc > says is 1073741824 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit As opposed to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibit As to measuring throughput, http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/netpipe/ is your friend. You might also look into jumbo frames, if your switch fabric supports it. See also http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/jumbo.html -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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