Lossy cogent p2p experiences?

Sun Sep 3 08:24:15 UTC 2023

On 9/3/23 09:59, Masataka Ohta wrote:

>
> If you have multiple parallel links over which many slow
> TCP connections are running, which should be your assumption,
> the proper thing to do is to use the links with round robin
> fashion without hashing. Without buffer bloat, packet
> reordering probability within each TCP connection is
> negligible.

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

>
> 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.

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

Mark.