ra man page explanation

[Carter Bullard]

Hey CS,
No, these definitions have been chosen carefully based on IETF and  
ITU standards,
and the single best reference to point to is RFC 2285, Benchmarking  
Terminology
for LAN Switching Devices.  This is our normative reference.  I've  
included others
below.

Load universally relates to octets (RFC 1242, 1404, 2285) example the  
word payload
and is reported as bits per second.

Rate, however is a completely ambiguous term, and applies to  
everything, but
we've chosen it as pps because of the IETF's use of the term as it  
relates to
Frames (RFC 1242; frame loss rate)  Forwarding Rate (RFC 2285; frames  
per
second) Forwarding Capacity (RFC 4689; packet rate ), and the rather  
simple
statistical arrival rate discussion on sampling in RFC 2330 (arrival  
rate of events
in Poisson Sampling).

Originally I had defined the terms as you did, but I was bashed so  
man times at
IETF's that I changed it to how it is now.

Carter


On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:37 AM, CS Lee wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I look at the man page of  ra
>
> load and rate seems to be wrong. load should be pkts per second and  
> rate should be bits per second. I can't recall if anyone spotted  
> this so my bad if someone already did.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
>
> CS Lee<geekooL[at]gmail.com>


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