Thursday, December 24, 2009

Which layer's throughput are DUmeter capable of detecting?

Hi





Which layer's throughput can DUmeter detect? The Physical layer? Mac layer, or the application layer?





Thanks.Which layer's throughput are DUmeter capable of detecting?
Apparently DU meter operates on Layer 2 (MAC)and above.


Since the physical layer is just the wire there would be nothing to measure, at layer 2 (MAC) you would see data such as broadcasts (not sure why anyone would want to see this, at least until you had a broadcast storm). The data that you would really want to see is at layer 3 and above.

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