[70807] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco HFR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed May 26 13:01:57 2004
In-Reply-To: <40B4C9BC.1070703@he.iki.fi>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:00:53 +0200
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 26-mei-04, at 18:45, Petri Helenius wrote:
>> (BTW, you'll experience very little fragmentation if you make sure=20
>> your box never comes close to running out of memory.)
> Reminds me of the fact that you need very little of "QoS" support if=20=
> you make sure your links never come close to running full. Amazingly=20=
> that=B4s still a very popular feature to ask for.
Well, if you can survive periods where memory requirements go beyond=20
100% of what's available without adverse effects anyway, why would=20
fragmentation be a problem for you? Or maybe it's not really the same=20
thing...=
