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by tlb 672 days ago
I don't get how that limits the packet size. If a sender's clock is 500 ppm faster than an intermediate node's, you need 500 ppm of slack. That could be short packets with a short gap, or large packets with a large gap.

Ethernet specs the IPG as a fixed number of bits, but it could easily be proportional to the size of the previous packet.