Bandwidth is how much capacity a link has. It can't be increased without asking for more bandwidth from a provider or moving to a different technology. (Just a comment on the subject of your message.)
The amount of bandwidth usable by applications could increase if you reduced the overhead. Overhead includes packet headers, packet ACKs, interframe gaps, etc. Increasing packet sizes can reduce the percentage of bandwidth used by those overhead functions, thus leaving more for application-layer data. You said that you are using 120% of bandwidth. That's not possible. Remember bandwidth just means capacity. You can't use more than is there. The offered load to the network could be more than the capacity. But the network itself can't carry more than its capacity. I'm wondering what is telling you that you are using 120%? Since you are paying for bandwidth, in one way or another, you want to use as much as possible, while leaving head room for bursty traffic. Those were just terminology things. On to your question: I could see bandwidth usage going down when you decrease the frame size. There's an interframe gap (silence) between every frame. That may explain it. Also perhaps you are benefiting from more efficient segmentation and reassembly. (I think you said you are using SMDS which is cell-based?) Perhaps it works more efficiently if you give it smaller chunks to work on. On the other hand, what are the applications? Most applications don't send large frames, although they could be configured to do so. But a typical TCP/IP application that grew up on Ethernet and Internet technologies wouldn't send packets bigger than 1500 bytes. And packets can't grow in size. I don't know of any technology that puts packets together just because the interface MTU is larger than received packets. So I'm wondering what the 4470 MTU you mentioned was really doing (as are you! ;-) Need more caffeine........ ;-) Priscilla At 09:30 AM 11/29/01, steve skinner wrote: >Chaps, > > >i came across this recently and was wondering if anyone had seen this >before.. > >we currently have 2 10meg smds(multicast)curcuits spanning the uk > >each curcuit is terminated at 2 different point`s (seperate HSSI router >int`s) in 2 seperate HO`s in the UK.... >the HO`s are linked by gig ether-fibre link across the UK. >OSPF is the only protocol bieng used (apart from some statics for Backup) > >after consulting the Cisco Documnetation about HSSI MTU over AAL3 we were >advised that an MTU of 4470-9120 compared to the standard of 1500 would >greatly increase the performance of our links.... > >the orignal network desinger set them to this > >over the last month or so ..these links have been running at 120%..(no >good)...so as an experiment the MTU were changed to 1500 for the HSSI int`s >and now since then the traffic has decreased to 80%...... > >anyone seen this before ...and why would the decrease in MTU size cuase >less bandwidth to be used ..!!!! > > >anyone > >TIA > >steve > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=27702&t=27673 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
