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Re: Exchanges that matter...

  • From: Joe Rhett
  • Date: Sun Dec 08 06:06:53 1996 
 
> It is actually quite hard in practice to push a FDDI switch
> into trouble, although theoretically it should be simple, modulo
> the interesting effects that token-withholding can produce.
 
Hm. Not sure what you mean. FDDI can certainly be over-utilized, that's
not hard. On the other hard, FDDI doesn't fall down and die like
Ethernet does when congested.

> In practice, the limiting factor will tend to be the per-port
> bandwidth rather than the aggregate bandwidth.  One would have

Bingo.

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