[50035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fractional gigabit ethernet links?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafi Sadowsky)
Tue Jul 16 02:44:58 2002
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:44:24 +0300 (IDT)
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il>
Reply-To: <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Sush Bhattarai <netnews@sush.org>
Cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200207160357.g6G3vpET006179@yak.sush.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sush,
Are you thinking of rate-limiting or traffic shaping ?
I'd expect rate-limiting of bursty traffic to lose some packets
irrespective of the L3 hardware/CPU capacity
--
Rafi
## On 2002-07-15 23:57 -0400 Sush Bhattarai typed:
SB>
SB> Might want to query your provider as to where the rate limitting is being
SB> done. In some cases, if rate limit is being done egress from the layer 3
SB> infracture towards the MAN layer 2 equipment, there might be a lack of
SB> processing power on that device, causing the drops. Of course this will
SB> depend on the type of device and whether the rate limiting is being done on
SB> hardware or not too.
SB>
SB> Sush
SB>
