data storage location

[Felix Rauch]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> We have seen less than stellar performance with the older/cheaper ATI
> Centrecom switches.  We were almost completely unsuccessful with
> multicast tests.  And RFC2544 packet testing was the pits.  So: small
> packets are bad, and multicast appears problemmatic.  At least on these
> devices.

I forgot to mention that on the same, little switch we had perfect
scalability and performance with Dolly [1] (at least for large
packets, which are the interesting ones for large data replications).

- Felix

[1] http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~rauch/tmp/FE.CentreCom742i.Agg.pdf

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