[82271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Jul 11 09:14:32 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:56:00 EDT."
<87mzotpkm7.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:12:30 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <87mzotpkm7.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes:
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>Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> writes:
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>> There were lower levels of priority that you could also use,
>> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about.
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>The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled
>P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override.
>The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code
>attached.
And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791....
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
