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Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:00:01 -1000


Alexander Harrowell wrote:
Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few
ASN hops upstream.  I view this as similar to some backbones offering
a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not
transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything but Slow
Stuff Down BGP community.
and the two hops upstream but not the source router spools the packets
to the hard drive?
Ideally you'd want to influence the endpoint protocol stack, right?

ECN

sally floyd ain't stoopid


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