On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:04 , Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
On 17/09/2013 14:43, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
And yes, DE-CIX is more than well aware everyone thinks this is .. uh .. let's just call it "silly" for now, although most would use far more disparaging words. Which is probably why no serious IXP does it.
It's not silly
We disagree.
it's just not what everyone else does
I don't think anyone else does 2 minutes, but happy to be educated otherwise.
so it's not possible to directly compare stats with other ixps. I'm all in favour of using short (but technically sensible) sampling intervals for internal monitoring, but there are good reasons to use 300s / ingress sum for prettypics intended for public consumption.
Your IXP (network, whatever), you decision. Use 2 second timers for all I care. Unfortunately, DE-CIX has done exactly what you said - compared themselves to other IXPs using that apples-to-oranges comparison. There are words for that sort of thing, but they are impolite, and I otherwise like the people at DE-CIX, so I shall let each NANOG-ite decide how to view such, um, tactics. -- TTFN, patrick