[1507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: value of co-location
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Tue Jan 23 21:47:57 1996
To: "Joseph Lawrence" <lawrence@ns.mci.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:29:06 EST."
<199601221429.JAA05970@clone6.reston.mci.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 21:34:51 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <199601221429.JAA05970@clone6.reston.mci.net>, "Joseph Lawrence" wri
tes:
> While we are on the subject of delay-bandwidth buffering in ATM switches.
> Does anyone know where I can get a router that has adequate buffering
> for those pesky little 1/4 Kbyte average size packets that keep
> floating around the net :).
>
> -joe
8 MB per interface should be enough to get you by for some interim
period even if the code is not terribly bright and uses a 4KB buffer
for each 1/4 KB packet. Even better if the code could use partial
buffers.
Not sure why the number 8MB comes to mind. ;-)
> PS. Also does someone have numbers for the amount of
> buffering in a DEC gigaswitch, and information on their buffer
> managment (i.e. variable length buffers vs fixed length buffers).
Don't know.
Curtis
