Chris Higgins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:09:17 +0000
>P at draigBrady.com wrote:
>>>>>I suppose you could saturate the line with 1500 byte packets
>>and infer the preamble from the received packet rate.
>>> Only if you are sure about the bit encoding scheme used on the wire, and
> you'll also need to know what interframe gap[1] your generating machine is using...
> but if you know that you surely can get the info on the size of the preamble ;-)
Wha?
I'm saying that if you make the assumption that the transmitter
can saturate the line with 1500 byte packets then one can
infer the inter packet gap like:
echo 'rate=8000; size=1500; ((100*10^6)/(8*rate))-size' | bc
I.E on 100Mb/s receiving only 8000 packets per second would
suggest a preamble of 62 bytes was being used.
As an aside, did you know that a preamble is only strictly
required on 10Mb/s LAN as 100 and 1000 used constant signalling.
The preamble is still used though, to avoid any changes in the
ethernet frame structure.
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