This is precisely the sort of failures I (perversely) hope to induce at battlemesh, using flent to drive the network to saturation.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Steinar H. Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:53:40PM +1000, jb wrote: >> While researching a little I came across a message on the Amazon support >> forums that said after 3 hours of uploading to Amazon, their cable modem >> would crash and reboot. The reason was that the SNMP the cable modem needed >> to stay healthy was timing out (due to the excessive latency induced by the >> continuous uploading). The author didn't know it was bufferbloat, of course. > > FWIW, you don't need bufferbloat for this to fail. A classic thing with > switches (typically underbuffered rather than overbuffered!) is that when you > run the links full, the OSPF packets get dropped and eventually your link > flaps because the other side thinks you're down. > > This is one of the reasons why most L3 switches (well, anything that's > advanced enough to do OSPF or the likes in the first place :-) ) have QoS at > all: You need to protect your administrative traffic. > > /* Steinar */ > -- > Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat -- Dave Täht worldwide bufferbloat report: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat And: What will it take to vastly improve wifi for everyone? https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/makewififast _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
