In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes: > > >Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There were lower levels of priority that you could also use, >> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about. > >The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled >P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override. >The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code >attached.
And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791.... --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb