From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 19 15:55:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16928 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16915 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA09973; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:01:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:01:44 -0500 Message-Id: <199611200001.TAA09973@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tony Li From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The point of this discussion, I believe, was to try to determine what > "it" is. As machines get faster, it keeps changing. Certainly there is > a limit, but its not totally clear what it is. > >As I think I pointed out in another message, "it" is a guarantee of cycles >and I/O to the routing protocols. There is no "guarantee" in unix, so you cant answer the question with your method. The best you can do is guess. Dropping packets occasionally can't be avoided without great overexpenditure, so the best we can try for is "very infrequently".... Dennis