[45801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco PPP DS-3 limitations - 42.9Mbpbs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Feb 20 12:09:11 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:08:17 -0800
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>>> presumably this can be improved (a little) with increased interface
>>> buffers.. ? and possibly non fifo queuing eg custom queuing in favour of
>>> TCP rathen than UDP/ICMP etc which wont have the backoffs
>> and increasing the speed of light
> I can't find that option in my management client. What MIB is that OID
> described in?
i begin to suspect folk don't get it. so i'll try once more.
you can turn on [x]red. it will make a better choice of which packets
to drop. but packets will still be dropped [0].
you can increase buffers blah blah blah. but twenty tomatoes will still
not fit in a fifteen tomato can.
randy
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[0] - corollary: qos mechanisims decide which packets to drop. but isps
are paid not to drop any packets.
