[13672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Well done Sprint!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Blair)
Thu Nov 13 18:32:49 1997
From: Steve Blair <sblair@tivoli.com>
To: avg@pluris.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:25:59 -0600 (CST)
Cc: huddle@mci.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <346B872C.167EB0E7@pluris.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Nov 13, 97 03:03:08 pm
'Vadim Antonov writes...'
**>
**> There's no use in promoting corporate paranoia at the expense of
**> engineering cooperation. It is like butcheing the hen which lays
**> the golden eggs. Knowing link capacity was useful (while it lasted)
**> to get the idea of what is more likely to be dropping packets
**> on the floor when customers complained.
well, one could get Van Jacobson's pathchar, and learn the
true capacity that way. I could care less what *theoretical
bandwidth* is available, when customers complain. I want to
know what bandwidth *is available*, and pathchar goes a very
long way towards that end.
link labelling could be arguably silly, if you're basing your
determination on a competetitor's labels, you could
get some unusual surprises IMHO...
--
steve c blair tivoli systems inc sblair@dev.tivoli.com
"Why can't we blast them onto someone else's property?"
