Hmm, reasonable explanation.. presumably this can be improved (a little) with increased interface buffers.. ? and possibly non fifo queuing eg custom queuing in favour of TCP rathen than UDP/ICMP etc which wont have the backoffs Cheers Steve On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Randy Bush wrote:
we run HDLC on DS3 and we max at about 40.something too
if you're using five min (or three min) samples, and you're seeing 70%, peaks are likely much higher and some users' packets are being dropped. by 80%, enough packets are being dropped that users are likely to see the effects of exponential backoff. things do not improve above 80%.
randy
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