[183147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Drops in Core
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Job Snijders)
Sat Aug 15 13:47:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 19:41:29 +0200
From: Job Snijders <job@instituut.net>
To: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPLq3UMofQomwiWBZcgvnaEb1qfkRN=CPfrj7wZPUEiemvHGWg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:01:56PM +0530, Glen Kent wrote:
> Is there a paper or a presentation that discusses the drops in the core?
>
> If i were to break the total path into three legs -- the first, middle
> and the last, then are you saying that the probability of packet loss
> is perhaps 1/3 in each leg (because the packet passes through
> different IXes).
It is unlikely packets pass through an IXP more then once.
Kind regards,
Job
