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From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Gross <kevin.gross@avanw.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:45:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=sYohPozpa1s+rnOpzWjS8P5mt0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <-854731558634984958@unknownmsgid>

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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Kevin Gross <kevin.gross@avanw.com> wrote:

> I would like to try this. Can you suggest specific equipment to look at.
> Due
> to integration and low port count, most of the cheap consumer stuff has
> surprisingly good layer-2 performance. I've tested a bunch of Linksys and
> other small/medium business 5 to 24 port gigabit switches. Since I measure
> latency, I expect I would have noticed if flow control were kicking in.
>

I would certainly appreciate more people looking at the switch in the
wndr3700v2 we're using on the bismark project.

I'm seeing some pretty deep buffering on it

>
> Kevin Gross
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bloat-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net
> [mailto:bloat-bounces@lists.bufferbloat.net] On Behalf Of Jim Gettys
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 7:23 AM
> To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: Re: [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers
>
> On 05/16/2011 09:15 AM, Kevin Gross wrote:
> > All the stand-alone switches I've looked at recently either do not
> support
> > 802.3x or support it in the (desireable) manner described in the last
> > paragraph of the linked blog post. I don't believe Ethernet flow control
> is
> > a factor in current LANs. I'd be interested to know the specifics if
> anyone
> > sees it differently.
>
> Heh.  Plug wireshark into current off the shelf cheap consumer switches
> intended for the home.  You won't like what you see.  And you have no
> way to manage them.  I was quite surprised last fall when doing my home
> experiments to see 802.3 frames; I had been blissfully unaware of its
> existence, and had to go read up on it as a result.
>
> I don't think any of the enterprise switches are so brain damaged.  So i
> suspect it's mostly lurking to cause trouble in home and small office
> environments, exactly where no-one will know what's going on.
>                         - Jim
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-16 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26 17:05 [Bloat] Network computing article on bloat Dave Taht
2011-04-26 18:13 ` Dave Hart
2011-04-26 18:17   ` Dave Taht
2011-04-26 18:28     ` dave greenfield
2011-04-26 18:32     ` Wesley Eddy
2011-04-26 19:37       ` Dave Taht
2011-04-26 20:21         ` Wesley Eddy
2011-04-26 20:30           ` Constantine Dovrolis
2011-04-26 21:16             ` Dave Taht
2011-04-27 17:10           ` Bill Sommerfeld
2011-04-27 17:40             ` Wesley Eddy
2011-04-27  7:43       ` Jonathan Morton
2011-04-30 15:56       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-04-30 19:18       ` [Bloat] Goodput fraction w/ AQM vs bufferbloat Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-05 16:01         ` Jim Gettys
2011-05-05 16:10           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-05 16:30             ` Jim Gettys
2011-05-05 16:49             ` [Bloat] Burst Loss Neil Davies
2011-05-05 18:34               ` Jim Gettys
2011-05-06 11:40               ` Sam Stickland
2011-05-06 11:53                 ` Neil Davies
2011-05-08 12:42               ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-09 18:06                 ` Rick Jones
2011-05-11  8:53                   ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-11  9:53                     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-12 14:16                       ` [Bloat] Publications Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-12 16:31                   ` [Bloat] Burst Loss Fred Baker
2011-05-12 16:41                     ` Rick Jones
2011-05-12 17:11                       ` Fred Baker
2011-05-13  5:00                     ` Kevin Gross
2011-05-13 14:35                       ` Rick Jones
2011-05-13 14:54                         ` Dave Taht
2011-05-13 20:03                           ` [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers (was: RE: Burst Loss) Kevin Gross
2011-05-14 20:48                             ` Fred Baker
2011-05-15 18:28                               ` Jonathan Morton
2011-05-15 20:49                                 ` Fred Baker
2011-05-16  0:31                                   ` Jonathan Morton
2011-05-16  7:51                                     ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-16  9:49                                       ` Fred Baker
2011-05-16 11:23                                         ` [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers Jim Gettys
2011-05-16 13:15                                           ` Kevin Gross
2011-05-16 13:22                                             ` Jim Gettys
2011-05-16 13:42                                               ` Kevin Gross
2011-05-16 15:23                                                 ` Jim Gettys
     [not found]                                               ` <-854731558634984958@unknownmsgid>
2011-05-16 13:45                                                 ` Dave Taht [this message]
2011-05-16 18:36                                             ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-16 18:11                                         ` [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers (was: RE: Burst Loss) Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-17  7:49                               ` BeckW
2011-05-17 14:16                                 ` Dave Taht
     [not found]                           ` <-4629065256951087821@unknownmsgid>
2011-05-13 20:21                             ` Dave Taht
2011-05-13 22:36                               ` Kevin Gross
2011-05-13 22:08                           ` [Bloat] Burst Loss david
2011-05-13 19:32                         ` Denton Gentry
2011-05-13 20:47                           ` Rick Jones
2011-05-06  4:18           ` [Bloat] Goodput fraction w/ AQM vs bufferbloat Fred Baker
2011-05-06 15:14             ` richard
2011-05-06 21:56               ` Fred Baker
2011-05-06 22:10                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-07 16:39                   ` Jonathan Morton
2011-05-08  0:15                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-08  3:04                       ` Constantine Dovrolis
2011-05-08 13:00                 ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-08 12:53               ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-08 12:34             ` Richard Scheffenegger
2011-05-09  3:07               ` Fred Baker
2011-05-16 18:40 [Bloat] Jumbo frames and LAN buffers Richard Scheffenegger

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