I believe others have observed a similar situation with at least one other CDN and the situation continued solid for hours, not just occasional capacity detection.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" <j...@kyneticwifi.com> To: "Matt Hoppes" <mhop...@indigowireless.com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 9:10:51 PM Subject: Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe Adaptive bandwidth detection. On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhop...@indigowireless.com> wrote: > Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into customer > CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan? > > I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three > times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle. > > I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that appear > to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible good > purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this. > > Curious if anyone else has seen it?