RE: [bmwg] Comments on draft-ietf-bmwg-mcastm-12.txt

Brooks,

Why perform the baseline at all?  How is the baseline metric used in
determining the burdened metric?

The point is that these are two separate tests.  They even have their own
sections.  The way it is written now, you can run test A, but you can not
run test B without first running test A.  It's the dependency that is the
issue.

If you remove the baseline measurement dependency from Forwarding Burdened
Multicast Latency, what breaks?  Are the burdened results INVALID if you
don't already have baseline results?

Jerry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hickman, Brooks [mailto:brooks.hickman@spirentcom.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:41 PM
> To: 'bmwg@ietf.org'
> Subject: [bmwg] Comments on draft-ietf-bmwg-mcastm-12.txt
> 
> 
> >8.1. Forwarding Burdened Multicast Latency
> >
> >- Why 'Perform a baseline measurement of Multicast Latency'? 
>  It is not
> used
> >in determining the Forwarding Burdened Multicast Latency.  
> You can run both
> >tests for comparison.  The burdened test is a separate test. 
>  Suggest to
> >remove this.
> 
> 
> Jerry, the FDB of the DUT/SUT is populated with the unicast 
> addresses prior
> to performing a baseline
> test. The test is then performed with the DUT/SUT actually 
> forwarding the
> unicast traffic. This
> also applies to section 8.2. 
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