[141021] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Contention/Oversubscription maths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Sat May 28 01:43:01 2011
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:38:34 -0700
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikRi96an0Pjt7Hh_u5xEK3tRxPn_Q@mail.gmail.com>
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Jacob Broussard <shadowedstranger@gmail.com>, Adam Armstrong
<lists@memetic.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> We offer peak speeds of 4mbps, and we
> have an
> extrordinary amount of people using (abusing as some would say)
> streaming
> video for many hours of the day causing headaches for us. =20
I would bandwidth limit the ports, as someone else already mentioned. I
would also enable WRED, ECN and everything else I could lay my hands on.
What is that port connected to in the customer's end? Are they plugging
into a 8 port switch and fanning out that connection to their DVD player
which they use to watch Hulu and Netflix and a bunch of other services?
My Sony DVD player came with about 6 Internet video services programmed
in it and it has an ethernet port. Do they have a slingbox where they
are going to watch their home TV from work? And just having all those
users on a flat switched network would be one heck of a security hazard
(again, as someone else mentioned). But to be honest, I wouldn't deploy
that model at all. One person can DOS the entire building depending on
how it is deployed and that is without even touching the uplink port.
Now figure about a tenth of those computers will be infected by bot nets
and will sit there sending spam and click fraud all night long, too.
G
