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Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Sep 1 18:51:40 2009

Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:49:35 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
In-Reply-To: <485ED9BA02629E4BBBA53AC892EDA50E098CAC29@usmsxt104.mwd.h2o>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Holmes,David A wrote:
> runs with good values on all 3 measures (low RTT, little or no packet
> loss, low jitter with small inter-packet arrival variation) can be
> deemed not a candidate for bandwidth upgrades. The key to active

Sounds great, unless you don't own the router on the other side of the 
link which is subject to icmp filtering has a loaded RE, etc. If you 
pass the traffic through the routers to a reliable server, you'll be 
monitoring multiple links/routers and not just a single one.

Jack


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