Re: [nsp] Traffic management for Colo centers

From: Alex (alex@nac.net)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 11:20:32 EST


Why not just use traffic-shape? That simulates a nice full pipe and is
TCP-friendly.

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Chris Roberts wrote:

> On flows of this size, I can see CAR producing better results. However
> since it does no smoothing of flows, it produces nasty TCP performance,
> as when customers burst, they will find their TCP sessions exceed their
> excess burst and drop packets, causing TCP to go into slow restart.
> In our applications (2meg LL shaped to 1meg and such) this is
> not so useful. We have also evaluated, and are using the Packeteer,
> which is I guess what you meant?



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