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Re: Cisco PPP DS-3 limitations - 42.9Mbpbs?


From: "Tony Rall" <trall () almaden ibm com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:11:01 -0800


On Wednesday, 2002/02/20 at 09:08 PST, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
[0] - corollary: qos mechanisims decide which packets to drop.  but isps
      are paid not to drop any packets.

Exactly.  I've been saying this to vendors for the last few years, as they 
try to push their QOS mechanisms on me.

I'm not in the business of trying to engineer some optimum packet discard 
strategy.  I would rather spend my time and money trying to minimize the 
drop percentage.  (I haven't been tested yet with the task of trying to 
minimize or standardize latency for traffic like VOIP - might change my 
tune if I was dealing with that.)

Tony Rall


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