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Have you ever tried sending one Ethernet packet every 78 microseconds? If not, what would you expect to happen? Actually, I did that kind of experiment (and many others) last year in my graduation thesis “Development of a Scalable and Distributed System for Precise Performance Analysis of Communication Networks“, which is now published. For the thesis I developed a system called the Lightweight Universal Network Analyzer (LUNA), which can generate packets at precise times and record their arrival times, among other things. When I tested it on different hardware, I got some surprising results.