[3210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: critique of NANOG meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Jun 19 18:04:57 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9606192134.AA04549@butler.ncube.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Jun 19, 96 02:34:04 pm
> Not that simple -- some folks at MAE-E already have
> their DS-3s saturated.
>
> --vadim
> Also, I explained the Cisco route retraction bug/feature and
> that most of the packet loss that's not caused by total port
> outages is due to limited provisioning of bandwidth into the
> exchanges, not due to exchange fabrics losing packets or
> routers dropping packets due to anything but wan link saturation.
> In general, that is :)
>
> Avi
So more routers & more wan links are required by those providers, no?
I didn't say it's easy to do, but it's not impossible either.
Load-balance external peering, and either load-balance wan links or pull
the wan links to different locations.
MCI said they plan on increasing dramatically the # of pipes they have
to the public exchange points...
Avi
