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Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Schenk)
Sat Jun 22 15:28:51 1996
To: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 13:49:56 EDT."
<96Jun22.140625edt.105811-11720+526@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:46:24 -0400
From: "Eric Schenk" <schenk@cs.toronto.edu>
Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za> writes:
>I dont see how because a flaky line can have loss patterns which are
>both periodic (high freq. 60HZ phase jitter or phase problem with a clock)
>and random (wind and rain on damaged and poorly insulated local leads out
>in the bush). It might be able to tell the difference between a *particular*
>congestion problem and a *particular* kind of flaky line.
Good point. I was thinking more of specifically telling the difference
between a line that had the same drop rate regardless of transmission rate,
and one that was just congested. Before anyone leaps into doing a masters
thesis on this or something it would be worth asking if this type of
degredation is at all common in the real world. Someone else will have
to answer this. I'm a theortician by training and I don't have the
background to answer this question.
-- eric
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