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Re: Link capacity upgrade threshold

  • From: Paul Jakma
  • Date: Tue Sep 01 06:57:24 2009

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Nick Hilliard wrote:

In order to get a really good idea of what's going on at a microburst level, you would need to poll as often as it takes to fill the buffer of the port in question. This is not feasible in the general case, which is why we resort to hacks like QoS to make sure that when there is congestion, it is handled semi-sensibly.

Or some enterprising vendor could start recording utilisation stats?


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