Juniper hardware recommendation

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Mon May 17 07:34:19 UTC 2021


On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 00:22, Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> wrote:

> How do you normalise? Use L2 or L3 octets stats, and use the number of
> packets to calculate the L2 and/or L1 overhead the stats are missing?
> Or do you have a better way?

That's the way one of my employers did it, and I can't think of a better way.

bytes += PPS*overhead

Overhead is likely 20bytes (preamble, SFD, ifg). But it could also be
24B (FCS/CRC might be missing in what otherwise is claimed to be L2).
You may need a lab to confirm what exactly is being counted.

This adjustment could be in DB or it could be render-time, both have
pro and con.

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