Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Mark Tinka wrote:

> So you mean, what... per-packet load balancing, in lieu of per-flow load 
> balancing?

Why, do you think, you can rely on existence of flows?

> > So, if you internally have 10 parallel 1G circuits expecting
> > perfect hashing over them, it is not "non-rate-limited 10gig".
>
> It is understood in the operator space that "rate limiting" generally 
> refers to policing at the edge/access.

And nothing beyond, of course.

> The core is always abstracted, and that is just capacity planning and 
> management by the operator.

ECMP, surely, is a too abstract concept to properly manage/operate
simple situations with equal speed multi parallel point to point links.

                                                Masataka Ohta