NFS vs communications meduim (was slashes, then NFS devices)

[Bob Goudreau]

In article <2028 at bacchus.esa.oz.au>, david at bacchus.esa.oz.au (David Burren [Athos]) writes:
> In <11030 at dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek at elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> 
> >The bandwidth of your standard, boring old Ethernet is 10 Mb/s or 1.2
> >MB/s.
> 
> Say what?  If you can get over 1 Mb/s out of an Ethernet I'd like to hear
> about it.

Note that Chris said "bandwidth", not "effective throughput".

Also, pay attention to "b" ("bit") vs. "B" (byte).

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