Link capacity upgrade threshold
Paul Jakma
paul at jakma.org
Tue Sep 1 10:55:45 UTC 2009
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> In order to get a really good idea of what's going on at a
> microburst level, you would need to poll as often as it takes to
> fill the buffer of the port in question. This is not feasible in
> the general case, which is why we resort to hacks like QoS to make
> sure that when there is congestion, it is handled semi-sensibly.
Or some enterprising vendor could start recording utilisation stats?
regards,
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