On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Joe Rhett wrote:
It is actually quite hard in practice to push a FDDI switch into trouble, although theoretically it should be simple, modulo the interesting effects that token-withholding can produce.
Hm. Not sure what you mean. FDDI can certainly be over-utilized, that's not hard. On the other hard, FDDI doesn't fall down and die like Ethernet does when congested.
In practice, the limiting factor will tend to be the per-port bandwidth rather than the aggregate bandwidth. One would have
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