On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this limit? I'm a little worried about this because we are fast approaching this mark and am afraid were gonna hit it before we max out are available bandwidth? Anyone ever run into this situation or am I just paranoid?
Packets per second are a capability limitation of the equipment interfaces responsible for passing the traffic and don't directly relate to the link speed. It's also highly dependent on the size of the packets being passed by the interface. It's dependent on many several factors, actually. You hit a pps limit and you'll see packets drop; the interface simply can't keep up with the throughput. DS
