Ungodly packet loss rates

Tue Oct 22 23:25:46 UTC 1996

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Tony Li wrote:

> itself by.  For example, the provider has the very nice metric of "trouble
> tickets per day per billi-packet".  This gives him a real gauge of how many
> problems his network is seeing.  If the customer is happy, then the
> provider must be doing something right...

The only problem with this metric is that under heavy load, it tends to have
high packet loss. Which is, of course, where over-engineering comes in... ;)

-dorian