RE: [EFM] 1 Gbps != 999.9 Mbps
And how about the ICMP and IGMP traffic from the same CPE devices?
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: Francois Menard [mailto:fmenard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:05 AM
To: 'Denton Gentry'; bob.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 'stds-802-3-efm'
Subject: RE: [EFM] 1 Gbps != 999.9 Mbps
Or for that matter, what about ARP traffic unsolicited from my CPE
devices ?
-=Francois=-
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stds-802-3-efm@majordomo.ieee.org
[mailto:owner-stds-802-3-efm@majordomo.ieee.org] On Behalf Of Denton
Gentry
Sent: September 26, 2001 3:12 PM
To: bob.barrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stds-802-3-efm
Subject: [EFM] 1 Gbps != 999.9 Mbps
> Service providers have a desire to offer a full 1GE service and not
> use any of it's bandwidth for OAM. The rule of conservation of
> bandwidth means the OAM needs to go somewhere other then in the
> bandwidth reserved for the 1GE payload. I take it as read that 100%
> utilisation of a 1GE is unlikely, but that is not the point. The point
> is that service providers want to offer 1GE service period, not a
> 999.9Mbit service.
Does the existence of the Mac Control PAUSE frame therefore make
Ethernet unsuitable for service providers?
Denton Gentry
Dominet Systems