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Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:34:15 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
This is what I eventually upshot.. http://www.telco2.net/blog/2007/08/variable_speed_limits_for_the.html
You wrote in your blog:
"The problem is that if there is a major problem, very large numbers of users applications will all try to resend; generating a packet storm and creating even more congestion."
Do you have any data/facts to back up this statement? I'd be very interested to hear them, as I have heard this statement a few times before but it's a contradiction to the way I understand things to work.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery), (continued)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Stephen Wilcox (Aug 17)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 17)
- RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Deepak Jain (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Fred Baker (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Perry Lorier (Aug 18)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 19)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Alexander Harrowell (Aug 21)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 21)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Joe Provo (Aug 19)
- RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) michael.dillon (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Adrian Chadd (Aug 16)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Alexander Harrowell (Aug 17)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Stephen Wilcox (Aug 15)
- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) ChiloƩ Temuco (Aug 15)
- RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Rod Beck (Aug 15)
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- Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery) Stephen Wilcox (Aug 16)