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Re: Drops in Core
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:59:38 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Glen Kent wrote:
bets are off on whether it will get dropped or not. However, the key point is that the core usually does not drop too many packets - the probability of drops are highest in the access side. Is this correct?
1. TCP (and most other IP protocols) depends on, and forces packet congestion and drops. Packet drops alone are not necessarily a measure of network quality. Other than some laboratory conditions,
there must always be some congestion somewhere.2. Packet queuing and drops are most likely at network transition points. Usually speed or latency transition points, but also network administration transition points.
3. Packet queuing and drops are less likely between network transition points, i.e. across the same network (LAN, WAN, ISP, etc).
That's why some ISPs claim they have 0% packet loss on their network. They don't include network transition points in their statistics; but have worse end-to-end performance than another network which includes 0.1%
packet drops in their reported statistics. Generally I don't believe ISPs that claim 100% uptime or 0% packet loss.
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- Re: Drops in Core, (continued)
- Re: Drops in Core Job Snijders (Aug 16)
- Re: Drops in Core Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 16)
- Re: Drops in Core William Herrin (Aug 16)
- Re: Drops in Core Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 17)
- Re: Drops in Core Justin Wilson - MTIN (Aug 17)
- Re: Drops in Core Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 17)
- Re: Drops in Core William Herrin (Aug 15)
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