[13704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Well done Sprint!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Kilmer)
Fri Nov 14 16:06:58 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:50:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Henry Kilmer <hank@rem.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971113193108.17923A-100000@shell2.tiac.net>
From my experience, I have yet to see it give realistic numbers on OC3
and OC12 circuits.
Ex-Support Wench writes:
>What do y'all think of pathchar *as it is now*? How reliable is it for
>determining actual _available bandwidth_? I thought according to VJ,
>CAIDA, Cisco and even the NSF it was "way-alpha"?
>
>Steve Blair wrote:
>>
>>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.
