[AG-TECH] Numerator vs Denominator

[John Shalf]

Bill Nickless wrote: 
> Recall that one purpose of the beacon is to detect loss.  Here's how loss
> is calculated:
> 
>             Packets per second received
>   % Loss =  ------------------------------  * 100
>             Packets per second transmitted
> 
> If the number of packets per second from a given source is unknown (due to
> automatic bandwidth scaling, for example) then it is impossible to
> calculate the % loss from that source to a given receiver.

So can the beacon encode the receiver's indended data rate
(packets per second) into the first word of the packet?  As
long as the bandwidth scaling occurs slowly, the running
average %loss should be reasonably accurate.  

-john