[52308] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Tue Sep 24 19:08:35 2002
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:42:00 +0200
Cc: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>,
"Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
To: David Diaz <davediaz@smoton.net>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <p05111ae9b9b155dabf00@[65.191.183.11]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Really? Then I guess Juniper made a mistake chopping every packet
> into 64 byte packets ;-) . From a hardware standpoint, it speeds up
> the process significantly. Think of a factory with a cleaver machine,
> it knows exactly where to chop the pieces because there is a rhythm.
> It takes no "figuring out." By chopping up everything into set sizes
> you dont need to "search" for headers or different parts of the
> packet. It's always at a "set" byte number. Well Ive done a poor job
> of explaining it, but it does speed things
Oh? No search for headers or parts? That probably explains why they had
such difficulties to get the packets out in the same order as they came
in...
- kurtis -
