[186729] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Wed Dec 30 08:47:02 2015
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:46:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
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I believe others have observed a similar situation with at least one other CDN and the situation continued solid for hours, not just occasional capacity detection.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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Midwest Internet Exchange
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Reynolds" <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
Adaptive bandwidth detection.
On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes@indigowireless.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into customer
> CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan?
>
> I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three
> times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle.
>
> I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that appear
> to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible good
> purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this.
>
> Curious if anyone else has seen it?
