Mark Tinka wrote:
On 9/1/23 15:59, Mike Hammett wrote:
I wouldn't call 50 megabit/s an elephant flow
Fair point.
Both of you are totally wrong, because the proper thing to do here is to police, if *ANY*, based on total traffic without detecting any flow. 100 50Mbps flows are as harmful as 1 5Gbps flow. Moreover, as David Hubbard wrote:
I’ve got a non-rate-limited 10gig circuit
there is no point of policing. Detection of elephant flows were wrongly considered useful with flow driven architecture to automatically bypass L3 processing for the flows, when L3 processing capability were wrongly considered limited. Then, topology driven architecture of MPLS appeared, even though topology driven is flow driven (you can't put inner labels of MPLS without knowing detailed routing information at the destinations, which is hidden at the source through route aggregation, on demand after detecting flows.) Masataka Ohta