[165653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Sep 17 14:14:10 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <52386F91.5020801@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:13:36 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:04 , Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 17/09/2013 14:43, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> And yes, DE-CIX is more than well aware everyone thinks this is .. uh =
..
>> let's just call it "silly" for now, although most would use far more
>> disparaging words. Which is probably why no serious IXP does it.
>=20
> It's not silly
We disagree.
> it's just not what everyone else does
I don't think anyone else does 2 minutes, but happy to be educated =
otherwise.
> so it's not
> possible to directly compare stats with other ixps. I'm all in favour =
of
> using short (but technically sensible) sampling intervals for internal
> monitoring, but there are good reasons to use 300s / ingress sum for
> prettypics intended for public consumption.
Your IXP (network, whatever), you decision. Use 2 second timers for all =
I care.
Unfortunately, DE-CIX has done exactly what you said - compared =
themselves to other IXPs using that apples-to-oranges comparison. There =
are words for that sort of thing, but they are impolite, and I otherwise =
like the people at DE-CIX, so I shall let each NANOG-ite decide how to =
view such, um, tactics.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
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