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Re: fractional gigabit ethernet links?
From: Rafi Sadowsky <rafi-nanog () meron openu ac il>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:44:24 +0300 (IDT)
Sush, Are you thinking of rate-limiting or traffic shaping ? I'd expect rate-limiting of bursty traffic to lose some packets irrespective of the L3 hardware/CPU capacity -- Rafi ## On 2002-07-15 23:57 -0400 Sush Bhattarai typed: SB> SB> Might want to query your provider as to where the rate limitting is being SB> done. In some cases, if rate limit is being done egress from the layer 3 SB> infracture towards the MAN layer 2 equipment, there might be a lack of SB> processing power on that device, causing the drops. Of course this will SB> depend on the type of device and whether the rate limiting is being done on SB> hardware or not too. SB> SB> Sush SB>
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