On Dec 18, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Peter wrote:

>>> Ethernet and WiFi does not scale linearly with users and/or speed.
>>
>> A controversial statement.

> I think that some stress testing will show that a normal bunch of 
> machines hitting the same server on the same segment at the same time 
> will result in spectacularly un-democratic bandwidth distribuition and 
> huge backoff times

But are those ethernet limitations or transport limitations?  There was 
a
lot of research on fairness and so on at the TCP level.  Briefly.  Then
microsoft got into networking in a big way with proprietary code that
(probably) ignored much of that research and the rest is history...

BillW
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