Ethernet traffic metrics: measuring incremental traffic?

[Bill Shannon]

>     I need some information on how to measure and compute meaningful metrics
> about ethernet performance and traffic levels, in particular about "the
> amount of traffic generated" by adding diskless Sun 3's to a local ethernet.

What you want to know is the "netstone" rating of each machine!

(Credit to Bill Joy for coining the term "netstone".)

					Bill Shannon