IRC Net Bandwidth (was IRC and Security)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <11813 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> The new CNSS/ENSS T3 routers are better.  My source has no timings yet
> but `we had no trouble using the T3 backbone to saturate a 10Mb/s
> ethernet from a machine 1000 miles away'---saturate here means get
> approximately 1 MB/s (8 Mb/s) actual data transfer, host-to-host.

That's good to hear.

The big question: Can they still do it with 2-byte packets?

---Dan