[c-nsp] doubt on Mpps

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Sun Oct 10 02:24:52 EDT 2010


On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, jack daniels wrote:

> do u have any doc for the calculation will be of great help.
> or please explain with example the calculation

Facts:
There are 8 bits per byte.
G means Giga, which is 10^9.
10G is 10^10 bits per second, or 1.25*10^9 bytes.

Double that (in+out) is 2.5*10^9 bytes per second.

Divide by the figures I noted and you get packets per second for 
different average frame sizes.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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