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- From: "Gary C. Kessler, +1 802-879-3375" <KUMQUAT%SMCVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
- Subject: Re: >>>>Future of IP routers
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:34:00 GMT
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- If a station on an FDDI ring releases the token because its own TRT has
- expired, it does NOT necessarily follow that anyone else who follows that
- station will also see a "late" token. Since we all have the same target
- token rotation time (many feel that 8 ms. is an ideal value) and independent
- TRTs, it really depends upon the amount of synchronous bandwidth that is
- allocated and used. Thus, it is possible that I will see an "early" token,
- use up my entire TRT time (i.e., the entire amount of the earlyness), pass
- it on to you, where you will also see an "early" token.
-
- Yeah, this is hard to do in just prose...
-
- /gary kessler
- kumquat@smcvax.bitnet
-