[mrtg] Re: Utilization graph uncertainty

[Soden, David]

Thanks you all for the clarification on this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Wichers [mailto:billw at waveform.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:56 PM
To: Soden, David; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Cc: Steve Shipway
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Re: Utilization graph uncertainty


At 05:37 PM 2/11/2004 -0500, Soden, David wrote:
>As I understand it, the T1 provides symmetric communications, meaning 
>that any one of the 24 channels in the circuit can be sending or 
>receiving, but not both, at any given point in time.  So, if we were 
>only using 50% of the T1 to receive data, it is possible for the other 
>50% of available bandwidth to be utilized for sending data.  If we are 
>using 100% of the bandwidth for sending data there are no pathways left

>for receiving.

T1 is full duplex -- you can be sending *and* receiving on ALL 24
channels 
ALL the time if you want. Most customers don't actually do this however
-- 
at least not very often, since end users are typically either
downloading a 
big file or uploading a big file but not at the same time. In MRTG you 
would see both the IN and OUT traffic levels at near 100% for such a 
scenario, with the total traffic if you were to sum the IN and OUT being
a 
bit less than 3.072 Mb/s since router traffic counters don't seem to 
include low-level packet overhead IMHO. You would set maxbytes to the
total 
traffic possible in EITHER direction at any given time though.

Looking at your screenshot, your graph looks correct for a T1 link. Your

peaks are both under the 192 kB/s maximum for the line.

Remember that T1s were originally designed for voice phone service and
it 
is possible to both talk and hear at the same time on a phone :-)

>So with that said, I'm still left uncertain how the combined total was 
>over 100%.

The combined total isn't over 100%. You have the full capacity of the T1

circuit available in both directions at all times since it is a
full-duplex 
circuit.

To my knowledge, all digital telecom circuits in current use are full
duplex.

         -Bill


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