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Re: fractional gigabit ethernet links?
- From: Rafi Sadowsky
- Date: Tue Jul 16 02:46:50 2002
Sush,
Are you thinking of rate-limiting or traffic shaping ?
I'd expect rate-limiting of bursty traffic to lose some packets
irrespective of the L3 hardware/CPU capacity
--
Rafi
## On 2002-07-15 23:57 -0400 Sush Bhattarai typed:
SB>
SB> Might want to query your provider as to where the rate limitting is being
SB> done. In some cases, if rate limit is being done egress from the layer 3
SB> infracture towards the MAN layer 2 equipment, there might be a lack of
SB> processing power on that device, causing the drops. Of course this will
SB> depend on the type of device and whether the rate limiting is being done on
SB> hardware or not too.
SB>
SB> Sush
SB>
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