Re: A frame by any other name


Subject: Re: A frame by any other name
From: Chris (clear@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:38:26 AKST


Rick Dennis wrote:
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone that helped with my question about
> saving web pages from the command line (using wget) and about the
> BayStack 304 - figured it out.
>
> My switch measures traffic on each port but the unit of measurement is
> "frames". Can someone tell me how that converts to bytes, kilobyets,
> etc. What I really need to know is home many frames in a Gigabyte.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Rick Dennis
> AlaskaStyle.com=09

An ethernet frame can be as small as 64 bytes and as big as 1500 bytes
unless your switch supports VLAN's and then is 1522(22 bytes for the
VLAN tag). Ap retty good article that i found on Google(first search
result) was this...

http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan/ethernet2.htm

That will def. help. At the end of the day there is NO said frame size
just maximum and minimum sizes. Take telnet for instance it sends a
packet per keystroke to the remote server. Where as ftp will send a
packet per so many bytes depending on your MTU/Window size(which are not
the same thing). Anyways read that link and have fun (:

-- 

Chris

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