[5620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Tue Oct 22 19:27:26 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
cc: jbash@velvet.com, nanog@merit.net
In-Reply-To: <199610222319.QAA07631@chimp.jnx.com>
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Tony Li wrote:
> itself by. For example, the provider has the very nice metric of "trouble
> tickets per day per billi-packet". This gives him a real gauge of how many
> problems his network is seeing. If the customer is happy, then the
> provider must be doing something right...
The only problem with this metric is that under heavy load, it tends to have
high packet loss. Which is, of course, where over-engineering comes in... ;)
-dorian
