[14921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbone routers' priority settings for ICMP & UDP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Feb 3 15:45:34 1998
In-Reply-To: <199802031917.OAA07317@foo.notwork.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 14:58:12 -0500
To: "Marko B." <mrako@notwork.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: marko@notwork.net
At 2:17 PM -0500 2/3/98, Marko B. wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>In my travels I have heard numerous times that it is a popular practice to
>give ICMP and even UDP traffic a lower priority on backbone routers in
>times of congestion.
ICMP in general is or should be given higher priority, since it is
necessary for congestion control. Echo requests (pings) could be thrown
away, but the rest is necessary.
--Dean
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