Re: [ns] Link delay, what is it?

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Debojyoti Dutta wrote:

> When you set the link delay you set the propagation delay. The
> transmission delay is given by 1/BW

1/BW? should be (packetSize_ * 8)/link capacity (bits) for a packet.

usual rant about bandwidth vs link capacity can go here, never mind
that 8 assumption, which won't hold for parity and stop bits; the
IETF pilc WG thrashed this kind of thing to death.

L.

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