On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:00 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: >I wonder if there is some repackaging along the way. My model assumes >that a single packet traverses the network unchanged in any way. > >A fixed delay at the appliance works, but I don't understand how a >packet that has to be transmitted twice would take the same amount of >time as one transmitted only once.
I'm not a network guy. You may be correct when considering the transmission of a single packet. However, when transferring a large file, consisting of thousands of packets, doesn't the router transmit and receive packets in parallel? In that case, wouldn't you expect that the difference in the total time when there are additional hops to be very small? Perhaps even smaller than the variations that occur due to the amount of network traffic. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
