Proving Gig Speed

Mon Jul 16 18:27:02 UTC 2018

+1 to Jared.  I’ve seen people not account for this when sizing CoS as well on Juniper.

-Eddie


> On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 01:02:28PM -0500, Dan White wrote:
>> We've found that running windows in safe mode produces better results with
>> Ookla. And MACs usually do better as well. We've gotten >900mb/s with those
>> two approaches.
> 
>    I've seen engineers even forget to account for differing behaviors
> of vendors, eg: Juniper doesn't display the layer-2 header counters
> 
>    This means a 920Mb/s link may actually be 100% once you add back in
> ethernet framing.  Remind folks that they are seeing the TCP/UDP throughput
> and there is ethernet + IP headers involved.
> 
>    - Jared
>