Jaroslaw Sydir wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I'm not sure that I understand your question. If the traffic is truely
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
one can also let best effort injection be subject to a token bucket
specification, in theory, in practice maybe not usefull, unless if
fairness amongst a number of users should be part of the access
platforms.
if it is, then it fits in the present SLS template
yves
> 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
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