FYI - unproven technology

Wed Oct 19 21:51:31 UTC 1994

In message <9410192004.AA11557 at pele.psc.edu>, "Matt Mathis" writes:

| I sincerely hope the numbers were 0.25% and 0.40%....

No, the losses were 40% (40/100) and 15% (15/100) respectively. :-(

| >Those of you without Ciscos will have to come up with a similar hack
| >somehow.
| You mean mae-east is requiring custom, substandard, ethernet implementations?

No, just that MFS is using a box with a chipset which doesn't
comply with IEEE 802.3 specs for interpacket-delay.  This is still
a very very very bad and serious problem, though.

	Sean.