[117124] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Link capacity upgrade threshold
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Sep 1 18:30:26 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>, "Aaron J. Grier"
<agrier@poofygoof.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:29:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <485ED9BA02629E4BBBA53AC892EDA50E098CAC29@usmsxt104.mwd.h2o>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> do any router vendors provide something akin to hardware latches to
> keep
> track of highest buffer fill levels? poll as frequently/infrequently
> as
> you like...
Without getting into each permutation of a device's architecture, aren't bu=
ffer fills really just buffer drops? There are means to determine this. Lot=
s of vendors have configurable buffer pools for inter-device traffic levels=
that record high water levels as well.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
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