[87717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net-op: traffic loads as the result of patching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Thu Jan 5 16:58:28 2006
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:57:01 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0601051627230.21913@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> So, maybe an operational question.
>
> What are people seeing as far as network traffic loads due to WMF patching
> activity, e.g. auto-update and manual downloads? Microsoft has used
> several CDNs in addition to its own servers to distribute the load
> in the past.
Most organizations use from one to quite a few of their own distribution
points. It would be interesting to know what the stats are at broadband
providers... Although proxying may make the results a bit "nicer" in
some places.
Gadi.
