ra man page explanation

[Carter Bullard]

Wow, the switch table has the entries swapped.
I'll fix right now.  Regardless, the definitions of the terms
is more important than the implementation, at least I can do
something about the implementation :o)

Carter


On Apr 19, 2007, at 11:03 AM, CS Lee wrote:

> 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>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
>
> CS Lee<geekooL[at]gmail.com>


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