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From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
To: Ketan Kulkarni <ketkulka@gmail.com>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Bufferbloat in switches and routers
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:39:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150418193959.GA28137@sesse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD6NSj7dJDEv7FrMdtPV31bogsNV-A7MX_rwqfUsO2yjEwjDXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:24:28PM -0700, Ketan Kulkarni wrote:
>> For Cat3k switches, I can assure you there's no bufferbloat -- they are
>> badly underbuffered.
> Generically does that mean bufferbloat is the problem predominantly seen
> for the cable industry?

No. There are tons of other devices that have much larger buffers.
Take DSLAMs, for instance. Or higher-end routers.

> Cat3k was just an example. There are series of numerous other routers by
> many vendors.

But Cat3k isn't a router; it's an L3 switch. The difference is somewhat
arbitrary, but if you buy something marketed as a router, it's much more
likely to have ample buffering and AQM.

/* Steinar */
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Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-18 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAD6NSj5b3sB0ayTfncbV8daSKe-K5M=PpBmBVjNL0DYWvc8CPQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <CAD6NSj6YBFrWmOiBFgVuk3A-D6wj0NmEoo4CZwZQxAg-e=LWVw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-04-18 19:07   ` Ketan Kulkarni
2015-04-18 19:11     ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2015-04-18 19:24       ` Ketan Kulkarni
2015-04-18 19:39         ` Steinar H. Gunderson [this message]
2015-04-18 20:33     ` David Lang
2015-04-18 22:12       ` Ketan Kulkarni

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