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Re: Cisco HFR


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:00:53 +0200


On 26-mei-04, at 18:45, Petri Helenius wrote:

(BTW, you'll experience very little fragmentation if you make sure your box never comes close to running out of memory.)

Reminds me of the fact that you need very little of "QoS" support if you make sure your links never come close to running full. Amazingly that´s still a very popular feature to ask for.

Well, if you can survive periods where memory requirements go beyond 100% of what's available without adverse effects anyway, why would fragmentation be a problem for you? Or maybe it's not really the same thing...

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