Drops in Core

Sat Aug 15 17:41:29 UTC 2015

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:01:56PM +0530, Glen Kent wrote:
> Is there a paper or a presentation that discusses the drops in the core?
> 
> If i were to break the total path into three legs -- the first, middle
> and the last, then are you saying that the probability of packet loss
> is perhaps 1/3 in each leg (because the packet passes through
> different IXes).

It is unlikely packets pass through an IXP more then once.

Kind regards,

Job