[17380] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Fri May 29 19:13:39 1998
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:03:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <356ECFA4.2F1CF0FB@pluris.com>
> As a router manufacturer i can assure you that keeping detailed
> transfer records at today backbone's speeds is totally infeasible.
Why would it need to be done at the backbone?
Isn't it possible to have a statistically valid sampling of packets
even at the highest speeds? You'd know better than I would. I hope
the answer is yes, because that is valuable data even if not used for
billing.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
