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Re: Selfish routing


From: alex () yuriev com
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:49:43 -0400 (EDT)



Someone who built a rather good network used to say something along the
lines of "You are confused. QoS does not stand for Quality of Service. It
stands for Quantity of Service. What it means is that you don't have enough
capacity so you drop packets on the floor of those who pay you less money
before dropping on the floor packets of those who pay you more. At the end,
you still drop packets." Having capacity *always* makes a network better.

In general I agree here. Although its not always practical to do the necessary 
upgrades, especially in last mile where costs may be prohibitive.

If this is the last mile which is the problem, it will *always* be a problem
no matter if one talks about primary or secondary path.

Alex


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