Drops in Core

Sat Aug 15 17:07:09 UTC 2015

Hi Bill,

Just making sure that i get your point:

Youre saying that the probability of packet drop at peering points would
roughly match that at the edge. Is it? I thought that most core switches
have minimal buffering and really do cut-through forwarding. The idea is
that the traffic that they receive is already shaped by the upstream
routers.

Glen

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:33 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it fair to say that most traffic drops happen in the access layers, or
> > the first and the last miles, and the % of packet drops in the core are
> > minimal? So, if the packet has made it past the first mile and has
> > "entered" the core then chances are high that the packet will safely get
> > across till the exit in the core.
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> I would expect congestion loss at enough peering points (center of the
> core) to put it in the same league as noisy cable at the edge.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
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