[933] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Nov 8 17:03:03 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 14:50:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Hans-Werner Braun <hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu>
cc: Dave Mills <D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511081857.KAA06798@upeksa.sdsc.edu>
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Hans-Werner Braun wrote:
> A constant 10% packet loss (or any constant packet loss) means that the
> network is underprovisioned.
Agreed
> These aggregations result in some degree of
> steady state, but also burst behavior, which even in a well designed
^^^^^^^^^^^^
People who have analyzed Internet traffic would disagree with that
statement. The traffic patterns on the Internet do not appear to converge
on a steady state when multiple packet streams are aggregated.
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