Firstly, I don't profess to be an expert on this subject, and I haven't been following the discussion up to this point, but I've read the summary, and one thing leapt out...
> - Load is propagated back to the source. If node A is connected to node > B to node C, and A floods, then part of the flood will go through B to > C. C will then reject some requests pre-emptively and may have some > timeouts. This will result in B reducing its send rate to C. That will > result in more requests to B being rejected, which should result in A > reducing its rate of sending requests. But even if A does not, B will > refuse almost all of A's requests. Is it right that due to A's misbehavior, the connection between B and C is treated as overloaded? Likewise, if A sends a request to B, who forwards it to C, but it times out between B and C, the connection between B and C will be considered overloaded (right?) But will the perfectly healthy connection between A and B also be affected? Dave
