Cisco PPP DS-3 limitations - 42.9Mbpbs?
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at opaltelecom.co.uk
Wed Feb 20 16:08:47 UTC 2002
Hmm, reasonable explanation..
presumably this can be improved (a little) with increased interface
buffers.. ? and possibly non fifo queuing eg custom queuing in favour of
TCP rathen than UDP/ICMP etc which wont have the backoffs
Cheers
Steve
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
> > we run HDLC on DS3 and we max at about 40.something too
>
> if you're using five min (or three min) samples, and you're seeing 70%,
> peaks are likely much higher and some users' packets are being dropped.
> by 80%, enough packets are being dropped that users are likely to see
> the effects of exponential backoff. things do not improve above 80%.
>
> randy
>
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