ra man page explanation

[CS Lee]

Carter,

Thanks for the explanations, the reason why i thought it was wrong because
of the non-matching comparing the man page and the ra -L0 output.

On 4/19/07, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Best Regards,

CS Lee<geekooL[at]gmail.com>
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