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Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?)
From: salo () msc edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:30:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dave Siegel <dave () rtd net> Subject: Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) To: salo () msc edu (Tim Salo) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:22:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: dave () rtd net, agislist () interstice com, nanog () merit edu [...] Even with the improved buffering, if you fill your pipe into the ATM switch, your ATM switch still becomes a packet shredder, compared to the more graceful packet drops seen on a clear channel line. [...]
"Good" ATM switches are doing Early Packet Discard and Partial Packet Discard. You can ask your favorite switch vendor for details, or look at the following for a nice summary: http://www.fore.com/html/atm-edu/whitep/FTBMWP.html -tjs I am not quite sure how an ATM switch becomes a "packet shredder," or even what a "packet shredder" is... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Dave Siegel (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Curtis Villamizar (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Paul Ferguson (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Paul Ferguson (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Curtis Villamizar (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Michael Dillon (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) R. Eric Bennett (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Jim Forster (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Vincent J. Bono (Jul 26)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Dave Siegel (Jul 23)