Newbie network upgrade question, apologies in advance to NANOG

Thu Jul 3 11:43:08 UTC 2003

Andy Dills wrote:
> 
> Yes, but the original poster was dealing with DS3s connected to different
> NAPs, which is why the packet out-of-order issue can be significant.
> 

I'd say that a more significant issue is customer throughput. The nice 
aspect of per conn is that it not only tends to keep a decent load 
balance, it also limits bandwidth hogs from saturating all circuits. 
This of course depends on your desired result. An example in my case is 
my helpdesk. They are off two t1's with dsl and dialup customers. I'd 
prefer them not to tank both t1's when transfering files to and from the 
core servers.

-Jack