Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* nick () foobar org (Nick Hilliard) [Thu 19 Sep 2013, 01:38 CEST]:
> On 18/09/2013 23:55, Niels Bakker wrote:
> > Ding ding ding!  And that's why honest IXPs graph both, to show 
> > that they have no packet loss on their inter-switch links.
> If in > out, it's not necessarily inter-switch packet loss.  The 
> difference between the two will also include packet loss for 
> same-switch egress traffic on customer ports.

That's absolutely true, I was a bit too glib in the quoted mail.


        -- Niels.