Drops in Core

Sat Aug 15 17:16:51 UTC 2015

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Glen Kent <glen.kent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hi Glen,

It a capacity question. Several core networks [cough Verizon cough]
intentionally under-provision the "settlement-free" peering links to
other core networks. You can't cut-through when the destination
interface already has a queue of packets waiting to be sent.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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