From: Hardin Les - SMTP (hardinl@xxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 13:00:04 GMT-3
FYI.
Actually, 3Mbps = 3,072,000 bits per sec.
Les
At 02:37 AM 2/15/2001 -0800, Derek Buelna wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was thinking that if I was asked to configure this I'd probably do it
>one way but they would have wanted it the other way.
>
>In lab 18 I believe it says to limit broadcasts on a port, on the
>catalyst, to 3Mb/s.
>
>Ok, so I read that the percentage of bandwidth method is more accurate
>and also hardware based but the answer uses the per packet method.
>
>I'm taking it that 3,000,000 bits/s / 8 = 375,000 bytes/s. I'm
>assuming that an average packet size of 1024 would make for an average
>throughput of 366.21 of these kinds of packets/s.
>
>Am I understanding this correctly?
>
>Wouldn't it be easier to just say 30%, since it's a 10,000,000 bits/s
>link?
>
>set port broadcast 2/9 367
>set port broadcast 2/9 30%
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Derek
>
>
>
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