North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: fractional gigabit ethernet links?
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Phil Rosenthal wrote: > > This may sound a bit ridiculous, but say the timer is every 0.25ms. > 100kbit per 0.25ms = 400,000kbit or 400 mbit. > It is remotely possible to hit a 300 mbit limit with only 100kbits of > traffic, if the timer is sufficiently short, and your traffic is > sufficiently bursty. A cisco ping is not bursty, to the extent of hundreds of mb/s. Also, cisco ping doesn't offer 4,000 pings/sec. > Unless your traffic is Mcast, I doubt that issue is related. Read on; EIGRP, CDP, etc. > Can you ask your provider how exactly they are limiting the pipe? When > dealing with 300 or so megs, I doubt they will be shaping with a policy > friendly to you, as the logistics of doing so are a bit difficult. By strapping 1 or more STS-1's to the GE iface. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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