Re: Packet Loss

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <200012142041.eBEKf0CW232932 () black-ice cc vt edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@
vt.edu writes:
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> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:21:42 PST, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>  said:
> > > From: Scott Bradner [mailto:sob () harvard edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 10:52 AM
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> > > > Can we call on the Avian Carrier RFC here?  Packet Loss may 
> > > take on a whole
> > > > new meaning here...
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> At first reading, I saw 'Avian Carrier KFC'.  
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> > Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a mini-van filled with DLT tapes, on
> > the freeway at 65 mph.
> >      - updated to current - rmeyer - original author unknown
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> Andy Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks", if I remember correctly.

*Much* older -- I first heard it in 1969, and I don't think it was 
orginal then...

                --Steve Bellovin