fractional gigabit ethernet links?

Tue Jul 16 06:44:24 UTC 2002

Sush,

 Are you thinking of rate-limiting or traffic shaping ?
I'd expect rate-limiting of bursty traffic to lose some packets
irrespective of the L3 hardware/CPU capacity

-- 
	Rafi

## On 2002-07-15 23:57 -0400 Sush Bhattarai typed:

SB>
SB> Might want to query your provider as to where the rate limitting is being
SB> done. In some cases, if rate limit is being done egress from the layer 3
SB> infracture towards the MAN layer 2 equipment, there might be a lack of
SB> processing power on that device, causing the drops. Of course this will
SB> depend on the type of device and whether the rate limiting is being done on
SB> hardware or not too.
SB>
SB> Sush
SB>