[3593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Salo)
Tue Jul 23 17:39:32 1996
From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:30:18 -0500 (CDT)
To: dave@rtd.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> From: Dave Siegel <dave@rtd.net>
> Subject: Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?)
> To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:22:23 -0700 (MST)
> Cc: dave@rtd.net, agislist@interstice.com, nanog@merit.edu
> [...]
> Even
> with the improved buffering, if you fill your pipe into the ATM switch,
> your ATM switch still becomes a packet shredder, compared to the more
> graceful packet drops seen on a clear channel line.
> [...]
"Good" ATM switches are doing Early Packet Discard and Partial Packet
Discard. You can ask your favorite switch vendor for details, or look
at the following for a nice summary:
http://www.fore.com/html/atm-edu/whitep/FTBMWP.html
-tjs
I am not quite sure how an ATM switch becomes a "packet shredder," or
even what a "packet shredder" is...
