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Re: packet reordering at exchange points
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:30:26 -0400
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:48:36PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
To transfer 1Gb/s across 100ms I need to be prepared to buffer at least 25MB of data. According to pricewatch, I can pick up a high density 512MBWhy ? I am still waiting (after many years) for anyone to explain to me the issue of buffering. It appears to be completely unneccesary in a router.
Note that the previous example was about end to end systems achieving line rate across a continent, nothing about routers was mentioned. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
Current thread:
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points), (continued)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) E.B. Dreger (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) E.B. Dreger (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) E.B. Dreger (Apr 09)
- Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points) E.B. Dreger (Apr 09)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Peter Galbavy (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Neil J. McRae (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points John Kristoff (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Peter Galbavy (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Mathew Lodge (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Paul Vixie (Apr 10)
- RE: packet reordering at exchange points Jim Forster (Apr 10)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Craig Partridge (Apr 11)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Jesper Skriver (Apr 09)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Stephen Sprunk (Apr 08)
- Re: packet reordering at exchange points Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 09)