[176357] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do I handle a supplier that delivered a faulty product?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Nov 26 01:07:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Nick B <nick@pelagiris.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:41:08 -0500."
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:06:59 +1100
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <CAE7MFiJOxo9ybYg4BE+F9qM7VNvV1iqfJYjS4H0k0d-JJBWoVQ@mail.gmail.com>, Nick B writes:
> At no point does that spec say a single thing about speed. The closest
> part I could find was "Upstream data rate 1.244Gbps", but I think it's
> pretty clear that that is the link speed, not the actual data rate. It's
> worth wringing them out over the issue, maybe you can shame them into
> taking the units back, but I don't think you will have much luck pinning
> them down legally on some nebulous belief that it would run at wire rate
> gigabit.
> Nick
Any router/modem that *crashes* when the input rate exceeds the
output rate is broken. A router/modem shouldn't crash regardless
of the data input rate. It might drop packets but not crash.
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