North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: packet reordering at exchange points
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:00:31PM +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > A large IX in Europe have this exact problem on their Foundry swiches, > > which doesn't support round robin, and is currently forced to moving for > > Can you state how many participants? 100+ > With N x GigE, what sort of [im]balance is there over the N lines? a few links overloaded, which other practically doesn't carry traffic. > Of course, I'd hope that individual heavy pairs would establish > private interconnects instead of using public switch fabric, but I > know that's not always { an option | done | ... }. If A and B exchange say 200 Mbps of traffic, moving to a PNI is for sure a option, but if both have GigE connections to the shared infrastruture with spare capacity, both can expect the IX to handle that traffic. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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