In some email I received from Bennett Todd, sie wrote:
[...]
> > Yet, I would suggest the most common place for losing a UDP packet is not
> > across a LAN but in the buffering at either the sender or the receiver.
>
> That's probably the commonest place, with buffering at routers in between
> being a far rarer but occasional contributor.
For what it's worth, I've been testing with Ultra-5's and although they
can route ~17000pps (5 byte UDP datagrams, using ttcp), the receiver can
only handle about 7000pps.
Darren
