Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

Fri Sep 1 13:59:22 UTC 2023

I wouldn't call 50 megabit/s an elephant flow 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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From: "Mark Tinka" <mark at tinka.africa> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, "Saku Ytti" <saku at ytti.fi> 
Cc: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Friday, September 1, 2023 8:56:03 AM 
Subject: Re: Lossy cogent p2p experiences? 

On 9/1/23 15:44, Mike Hammett wrote: 

and I would say the OP wasn't even about elephant flows, just about a network that can't deliver anything acceptable. 

Unless Cogent are not trying to accept (and by extension, may not be able to guarantee) large Ethernet flows because they can't balance them across their various core links, end-to-end... 

Pure conjecture... 

Mark. 

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