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Re: Links on the blink - reprise


From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:21:02 -0500

At 06:56 PM 11/18/95 -0600, Alan Hannan wrote:


] Yes, that is true but most ISP's in my area are overselling 100 X or 
] more. Sure I mux 4 T1 FR to 1 T1 port and oversell my bandwidth, but all 
] of my links have at least 20% free on them during our peek.

 What is your sample interval?  Cisco's 5 minute average?

 80% utilization at 5 minute samples means it is very likely the
 lines are choked a good portion of that time.

-alan



Peek. A Freudian slip.  :-)

- paul



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