[59509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Newbie network upgrade question, apologies in advance to NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Jul 3 07:43:46 2003
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 06:43:08 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: Vandy Hamidi <vandy.hamidi@markettools.com>, prue <prue@usc.edu>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0307021652410.21234-100000@thunder.xecu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Andy Dills wrote:
>
> Yes, but the original poster was dealing with DS3s connected to different
> NAPs, which is why the packet out-of-order issue can be significant.
>
I'd say that a more significant issue is customer throughput. The nice
aspect of per conn is that it not only tends to keep a decent load
balance, it also limits bandwidth hogs from saturating all circuits.
This of course depends on your desired result. An example in my case is
my helpdesk. They are off two t1's with dsl and dialup customers. I'd
prefer them not to tank both t1's when transfering files to and from the
core servers.
-Jack
