I’ve always wondered whether network interfaces that have these flashing lights flash as a gimmick or do they actually indicate the flow of traffic? Perhaps one flash per packet in or out? I wish I could remember what my call up modem looked like to make a historical comparison too.
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They flash a lot longer then it takes to recieve one packet, but it’s a useful indicator that tells you that there is some activity.
Right! Packets, of course, come in many sizes and a TCP handshake alone is what… Less than 1MB? And with a 1 Gbps connection, there is no way those LEDs flash once for each packet. They would probably look like static lights to the human eye if that was the case… Thanks! :)
An Ethernet frame’s payload can’t exceed 1500 bytes without using jumbo frames. So every internet routable packet is actually less than or equal to 1.5kB.
less than 1 KB
They were technically right… Less than 1MB. 😆