[165657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kristolaitis)
Tue Sep 17 15:22:50 2013
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:21:27 -0400
From: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130917185152.GA66624@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/17/2013 2:51 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 07:11:23PM +0300, Martin T wrote:
>> counting traffic on inter-switch links is kind of cheating, isn't it?
>> I mean if "input bytes" and "output bytes" on all the ports facing the
>> IX members are already counted, then counting traffic on links between
>> the switches in fabric will count some of the traffic multiple times.
> Sounds like a marketing opportunity.
>
> customer--s1--s2--s3--s4--s5--s6--s7--s8--s9--s10--customer
>
> Presto, highest volume IX!
>
> Maybe I should patent that idea.
>
"Why do you have 10 48-port switches, 239 VLANs, but only 2 peers?"
"Uhh... for accounting reasons."
