It is convenient to measure the DUT performance under steady state
load but this is an unrealistic way to gauge the functioning of a DUT
since actual network traffic normally consists of bursts of frames.
Some of the tests described below SHOULD be performed with both
steady state traffic and with traffic consisting of repeated bursts
of frames. The frames within a burst are transmitted with the
minimum legitimate inter-frame gap.
The objective of the test is to determine the minimum interval
between bursts which the DUT can process with no frame loss. During
each test the number of frames in each burst is held constant and the
inter-burst interval varied. Tests SHOULD be run with burst sizes of
16, 64, 256 and 1024 frames.