[160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Domain -- County Delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Aug 2 12:19:27 1995
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: smd@icp.net (Sean Doran)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:11:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, paul@vix.com
In-Reply-To: <95Aug1.224059-0400_edt.20696+386@chops.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Aug 1, 95 10:40:49 pm
> >i would fear for the interconnects if all seven root servers got 600/sec
>
> Why?
>
> 5 minute input rate 26121000 bits/sec, 13430 packets/sec
> 5 minute output rate 19862000 bits/sec, 12327 packets/sec
>
> That's one of two connections to a particular (busy) interconnect
> at a pretty quiet time (22:30 EDT Tuesday). We see 15-minute
> periods of ~35Mbps inbound these days on the same link.
>
> The interconnects that are based on FDDI and DEC FDDI switches
> are working *beautifully*. Admittedly the bridging happening
> here and there to accomodate slow connections has occasional
> hiccups which cause nasty side-effects, but that's one of
> the very few flaws in the whole scheme of the MAEs, one NAP,
> and the special hack done at another NAP.
>
> Say, does anyone know if ATM NAP gear can handle > 20Mbps yet?
>
> Sean.
>
Given that the majority of traffic headed to RNS's from people not on one
of the nets where there is an RNS (most people as near as I can tell),
crosses the XP's to get to the RNS anyway, I don't see that it would
really change that much.
Owen
