[117131] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Sep 2 02:39:32 2009
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:39:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <75264.91571.qm@web1206.biz.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Kevin Graham wrote:
> Indeed. Capacity upgrades are best gauged by drop rates; bit-rates
> without this context are largely useless.
If you're dropping packets, you're already over the cliff. Our job as ISP
is to forward the packets our customers send to us, how is that compatible
with upgrading links when they're so full that you're not only buffering
but you're actually DROPPING packets?
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
