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Re: MCI [ATM overhead]
- From: Gary R Wright
- Date: Tue Mar 19 22:20:08 1996
Gordon Cook writes:
> Jeff, would you or anyone give an example or two of when you get
> PARTIALLY filled ATM cells? I've interviewed dave sincoskie, steve
> tabaska, and Stephen von rump so far. they all rather like ATM. Don't
> believe I heard about this problem from them. You aren't talking about
> the switch not being able to tell whether a cell is mangled before it
> transmits by any chance are you?????
Since TCP/IP packets are of variable length, the last ATM cell
for the packet will not be full. The remaining bytes in the cell
are wasted bandwidth.
Gary Wright --------------------------------- gwright@connix.com
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