Re: Internet speed report...

[Michael.Dillon () radianz com]

> most recently, Guido Appenzeller, Isaac Keslassy and Nick McKeown have 
> written a paper that they presented at SIGCOMM 2004 about "sizing router 

> buffers" that is very informative and goes against the grain of the 
amount 
> of buffering required in routers/switches.

In the paper 
http://klamath.stanford.edu/~keslassy/download/tr04_hpng_060800_sizing.pdf
they state as follows:
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While we have evidence that buffers 
can be made smaller, we haven't tested the hypothesis
in a real operational network. It is a little difficult
to persuade the operator of a functioning, profitable network
to take the risk and remove 99% of their buffers. But that
has to be the next step, and we see the results presented in
this paper as a first step towards persuading an operator to
try it.
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So, has anyone actually tried their buffer sizing rules?

Or do your current buffer sizing rules actually match,
more or less, the sizes that they recommend?

--Michael Dillon