Michael,
But isn't that the definition of best effort? The user makes no predictions about the
amount of traffic that will be sent into the network and the network makes no guarantees
about how the traffic will fare?
Jerry
Michael Smirnov wrote:
> Hi Jaroslaw,
>
> thanks for your answer,
> On Thu Nov 2 02:51:21 2000 Jaroslaw Sydir wrote:
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > I'm not sure that I understand your question. If the traffic is truely
>
> your answer is just to the point
>
> > best effort then it requires no guarantees and you don't care about it
> > in your traffic engineering. It gets the lowest priority in the network
> > and is dropped in favor of the guaranteed traffic.
>
> and this is exactly what I dislike in the whole story
>
> >
> > If you want to provide a "slightly better than best effort" service,
> > then this implies some level of performance guarantees for some amount
> > of this traffic. In this case you would describe it in terms of
> > individual e2e SLS just like the other types of services.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> > Michael Smirnov wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed Nov 1 00:51:41 2000 Jaroslaw Sydir wrote:
> > >
> > > > Jean-Pierre and Pierrick,
> > > >
> > > > A traffic matrix (network wide SLS) can be specified as a set of individual e2e
> > > > SLS/services (represending the trunks that make up the traffic matrix).
> > > <...>
> > >
> > > How you plan to specify best effort traffic?
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > Michael
> >
>
> regards
>
> Michael
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