[1090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - reprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Nov 18 20:35:19 1995
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:21:02 -0500
To: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton), nanog@merit.edu
At 06:56 PM 11/18/95 -0600, Alan Hannan wrote:
>
>] Yes, that is true but most ISP's in my area are overselling 100 X or
>] more. Sure I mux 4 T1 FR to 1 T1 port and oversell my bandwidth, but all
>] of my links have at least 20% free on them during our peek.
>
> What is your sample interval? Cisco's 5 minute average?
>
> 80% utilization at 5 minute samples means it is very likely the
> lines are choked a good portion of that time.
>
>-alan
>
>
Peek. A Freudian slip. :-)
- paul
