[862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Veach)
Sat Nov 4 15:50:58 1995
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 14:31:50 -0600
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: rrv@uiuc.edu (Ross Veach)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk
At 2:48 PM 11/4/95, Michael Dillon wrote:
>On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Hans-Werner Braun wrote:
>> Just let me ask you, as a customer who fairly
>> frequently experiences 10% packet loss between major Internet locations
>> across major service providers (no mom and pop shops in the middle or
>> at the end points), how would you suggest I deal with that?
>
>Uh... Ignore it?
>10% packet loss is quite within the normal range of parameters for a
>packet switching network such as the Internet.
Sorry Michael, wrong answer. 1% packet loss is intolerable. 10% packet
loss is all but useless for serious work.
