[165692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Sep 18 19:38:22 2013
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 18/09/2013 23:55, Niels Bakker wrote:
> Ding ding ding! And that's why honest IXPs graph both, to show that they
> have no packet loss on their inter-switch links.
If in > out, it's not necessarily inter-switch packet loss. The difference
between the two will also include packet loss for same-switch egress
traffic on customer ports.
Nick
