Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!MITVMA.MIT.EDU!KASTEN From: KASTEN@MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Frank Kastenholz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Proteon p4200 Packet Drop Rates Message-ID: <8809211412.AA08336@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 88 12:24:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 Does anyone have any numbers on packet dropping by Proteon p4200 IP Routers? Please include a description (brief!) of your environment. I have set up a test suite of two p4200's, two IBM PS/2 model 60's, and 3 Ethernets: PS/2 p4200 p4200 PS/2 | | | | | | V V V V V V --------------- ----------- --------------- Ether Ether Ether Running the MIT/CMU PC/IP Ping between the two PS/2's continuously I see packet losses (i.e. response timeouts) on the order of 1 in every 2500 ping requests (or 1 every 5000 packets - 1 packet for the request, one for the response). There is no other traffic, etc on the nets at the time of the tests. Is this number high? low? ??? I will be glad to summarize to the net, as well as provide more quantitative information as I continue the studies. Thanks Frank Kastenholz Atex/Eastman Kodak