[195553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 100G - Whitebox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Aug 21 00:33:30 2017
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 06:33:24 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2017, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Mostly you can engineer around this, but it's not as simple as saying
> that small-buffer switches aren't suitable for an IXP.
Could you please elaborate on this?
How do you engineer around having basically no buffers at all, and
especially if these very small buffers are shared between ports.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
