Re: Comparing an old flow snapshot with some packet size data

[John Lekashman <[e-mail]>]

   From: Andrew Partan <[e-mail]>
   Any high performance internet folks out there?  What would you do
   (or want us to do)?

What we do:
We use HIPPI and FDDI switches, 100baseT, collapsed backbones inside
routers and hubs, and whatever other tools we can find or fund the
creation thereof, from all sorts of vendors.

Then there's this small matter of engineering with the tools one has,
for a given problem.  

What we want you to do:
Engineer things well.  Figure out what your target is, and build to
it.  That's a somewhat pithy and annoying answer, but its what you
have to do.  And its a lot of work to do well.

   From: "Dorian R. Kim" <[e-mail]>
   I would think that the problem of just simply going faster and the problem of
   making massively aggregated flows flow through bigger pipes are not quite the
   same thing.
   
Yes, moving tons of small packets is different from moving tons of
data.  Different optimizations can occur, depending on your target.


					 john

remember.  simple is really, really hard.
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