Re: Extended RAC - latency on real systems

Dnia czwartek, 3 kwietnia 2008 06:50, Matthew Zito napisał:

> You'd be better off asking a question like this on the NANOG mailing list:
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> http://www.nanog.org/
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> There's nothing specific about RAC versus any other traffic-based latencies
> for various packet sizes. One thing to keep in mind for your research,
> though, is that most extended-distance WAN links have smaller MTUs, and
> hence jumbo frames are not an option.
>

Hi Matthew,

As far as I know, most Extended RAC configurations are running on dedicated DWDMs or pure Gigabit Ethernet/FC optical links (2-20km). I think that in this second scenario MTU of Ethernet can be set as high as 9k.

Thanks for link, I'll try to ask there if no one replies here.

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> Subject: Extended RAC - latency on real systems
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> Hello experts,
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> I'm doing small academic research about Extended RAC and latencies, could
> anybody send me round-trip-tipe average latencies (with distances and
> interface types) observed between distributed nodes? Preferably measured
> using ICMP ping with standard packet sizes and bigger ones (up to MTU, e.g.
> ~9000 for Jumbo Frames, on Linux it's the "-s <size>" argument). Last two
> lines of /bin/ping would be pretty enough...
>
> Thanks.

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