On Thu Nov 2 18:08:26 2000 Jaroslaw Sydir wrote:
> 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?
yes, BUT providing that ALL inetrnet system resources are shared by all
best effort flows, and all flows are best effort.
>
> 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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