[5662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Oct 23 23:57:59 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
To: kwe@6SigmaNets.com (Kent W. England)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>One can certainly make the argument that running large traffic
>flows through shared interconnects is bad engineering
Yes, and I think the operative word is "shared" as in "shared
access media".
Shared access to the media is not relevant. Scalability of the shared
media is. Private interconnects are simply more scalable than shared
interconnects.
I trust that an example is not necessary.
Tony
