[57908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Selfish routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sat Apr 26 15:44:19 2003
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304261833150.29553-100000@MrServer>
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.
>
> In general I agree here. Although its not always practical to do the necessary
> upgrades, especially in last mile where costs may be prohibitive.
If this is the last mile which is the problem, it will *always* be a problem
no matter if one talks about primary or secondary path.
Alex
