[1083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - reprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike O'Dell)
Sat Nov 18 07:37:11 1995
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
cc: smd@sprint.net, cook@cookreport.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 18:41:08 EST."
<199511172340.PAA09759@lint.cisco.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 07:30:17 -0500
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@uunet.uu.net>
don't confuse the link encoding with back-haul design
if the network is deeply over-subscribed, you will drop packets.
the only question is "where?"
whether the link uses F/R-1490 framing or cisco HDLC doesn't change
that.
-mo
