> Thank Goodness for well-behaved applications, right?
> ( Misbehaving TCP
> stacks and UDP-based apps don't obey these back off
> rules. )
You can see lot of intiatives to make things more
TCP friendly to avoid hogging of bandwidth by some
selected applications( mostly multimedia based.) M
At 09:47 PM 9/7/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Unlike phone calls, TCP traffic doesn't occur in fixed bandwidth
>increments. TCP traffic, 90% of Internet traffic, is elastic. By design,
>TCP adjusts the traffic rate to keep the bottleneck congested. As the
>bottleneck moves, traffic reacts by
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You also have the problem of cascading failures. Just because there
> are redundant paths and alternate peering locations does not mean
> those facilites have the bandwidth to handle all the redirected
> traffic. If A gets swamped you go to B if the
