On 14/01/2014 22:07, Wesley Eddy wrote:
On 1/14/2014 4:57 PM, l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't think sayng 'oh, that error source is no longer a problem' disproves
Stone's overall point about undetected errors, though the
examples he uses from the technology of the day are necessarily
dated. Dismissing the overall point because the examples use obsolete
technology is throwing the baby out with the bathwater; a host-to-host
error check catches things that intermediate checks cannot.
Measuring error rates across end-to-end Internet traffic is something that has
not received much attention , as error detection is not
instrumented well - hence citing Stone's published work, in the absence
of awareness of anything newer (and as high profile/immediately recognisable
as sigcomm) in the area.
+1 ... the message in the paper is applicable to layered systems
and internetworks in general. Changes in the link technology
since then don't invalidate it, especially since we know that
the technology not only changes rapidly, but also is always
growing in diverse directions, such that there things almost
universally true today may be turned on their heads tomorrow.
Designs for stacking layers need to follow solid general
principles in order to be robust to changes (above and below).
Note that it is not only the link layer technology that has moved on,
the signal integrity of the h/w at all stages of the design and
implementation process has moved on.
Can we agree that the statistics in the paper are discredited?
If not, why not?
What is the error rate in modern h/w and network systems?
Is this significant in the application under consideration?
Finally if we are really concerned that we do actually need a
c/s (I am not in tunnel applications) why are we still happy to
use what is frankly a pathetic check in modern terms? Why
for example are we not moving to something like
the Fletcher 64 bit c/s?
Stewart