[57889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selfish routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Apr 25 16:21:06 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: <alex@yuriev.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 23:19:19 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
While itīs general knowledge, it should be pointed out that having capacity
at each and every millisecond is quite different game than having your 5 minute
averages look nice.
Pete
