Re: Cisco PPP DS-3 limitations - 42.9Mbpbs?

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

BTW:

  30 second input rate 13039000 bits/sec, 8055 packets/sec
  30 second output rate 45531000 bits/sec, 10021 packets/sec

Thats a pa-2t3+ on a flexwan in a 6509.



On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> Hmm, reasonable explanation..
>
> presumably this can be improved (a little) with increased interface
> buffers.. ? and possibly non fifo queuing eg custom queuing in favour of
> TCP rathen than UDP/ICMP etc which wont have the backoffs
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > > we run HDLC on DS3 and we max at about 40.something too
> >
> > if you're using five min (or three min) samples, and you're seeing 70%,
> > peaks are likely much higher and some users' packets are being dropped.
> > by 80%, enough packets are being dropped that users are likely to see
> > the effects of exponential backoff.  things do not improve above 80%.
> >
> > randy
>
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