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RFC 2544, "Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices", March 1999

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 6201, RFC 6815, RFC 9004

Source of RFC: Legacy
Area Assignment: ops
See Also: RFC 2544 w/ inline errata

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Errata ID: 421
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Lu Jian Xiong
Date Reported: 2002-08-07

Section 6 says:

   Since the tester both sends the test traffic and receives
   it back, after the traffic has been forwarded but the DUT, the tester
   can easily determine if all of the transmitted packets were received
   and verify that the correct packets were received.

It should say:

   Since the tester both sends the test traffic and receives
   it back, after the traffic has been forwarded by the DUT, the tester
   can easily determine if all of the transmitted packets were received
   and verify that the correct packets were received.

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