In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes: >On 10/23/2011 02:37 PM, Tijd Dingen wrote:
>The danger of Ethernet is that it has high capacity and a interconnect >friendly interface. Thus, you might feel inclined to toss data over it >carlessly causing packet delays and you can hook it into a switch and >get delays and packet losses there. I usually cure that by using fiber-based ethernet, which leaves a lot less to plug it into. Also firewall rules preventing anything but port 123 packets helps a lot. RS-232 has surprisingly bad jitter. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
