Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS

[Vadim Antonov <avg () quake net>]

Dick St.Peters <stpeters () NetHeaven com> wrote:

> > One dirty little secret is that most
> > phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions
> > by using a bully of a communications method called UDP.  Unlike the more
> > polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back
> > when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing
> > ahead of TCP traffic.

> Sigh, I guess you need to have part of your network shut down by the
> above-described effect to appreciate just how unusually accurate a
> portrayal that description is.

ping -f does it much better.

UDP is not bad per se.  Broken applications are.

--vadim
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