[3926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Aug 29 05:03:22 1996
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 01:49:37 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: jerry@fc.net, stpeters@NetHeaven.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Dick St.Peters <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> wrote:
>> One dirty little secret is that most
>> phone calls and videoconferences ram their way past data transmissions
>> by using a bully of a communications method called UDP. Unlike the more
>> polite Transmission Control Protocol, TCP, which drops back
>> when it detects congestion, UDP continues at full speed, elbowing
>> ahead of TCP traffic.
>Sigh, I guess you need to have part of your network shut down by the
>above-described effect to appreciate just how unusually accurate a
>portrayal that description is.
ping -f does it much better.
UDP is not bad per se. Broken applications are.
--vadim
