[LARTC] formula for minimum latency of connections on a loaded link

[ahu@xxxxxxx (bert hubert)]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:33:54PM +0100, Martin Devera wrote:
> >                      avgpacketbytes*5000
> > msavglatencyadded=   ------------------- 
> >                            bpsoflink
> 
> Hi Bert,
> 
> where came the 5000 from ? I'd expect 1000 here ... :-o

'bps' should be read as 'bits per second'. So:

                      avgpacketbytes*10*1000
msavglatencyadded =   ---------------------- * 0.5
                        bitspersecondoflink

And this becomes '*5000'.

Regards,

bert

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