[AG-TECH] Re: Numerator vs Denominator

[Chris Greenhalgh]

> Recall that one purpose of the beacon is to detect loss.  Here's how loss
> is calculated:
>
>
>             Packets per second received
>   % Loss =  ------------------------------  * 100
>             Packets per second transmitted
>
> If the number of packets per second from a given source is unknown (due to
> automatic bandwidth scaling, for example) then it is impossible to
> calculate the % loss from that source to a given receiver.

but there is more than one way to determine and/or communicate
packets per second transmitted. No packets getting through is
simple :-) If on the other hand any are getting through then they
can contain info on sent packets and/or their own sequence
numbers so that you can infer pps xmit.

chris